Body Chemistry
Recovery Sayings
Recovery Knowledge
Recovery Support Groups
Recovery 12 Steps
100

Addiction affects what part of human anatomy

What is the brain/body?

100
For the best chance of staying sober, what is the MINIMUM lenth of time a person should stay in treatment?

What is 90 days

100

Housing that many people choose to live in after completing in-patient treatment

What is recovery housing/halfway house/sober living?

100

AA                              Y12SR

NA                             Recovery 2.0

Smart Recovery          Refuge Recovery

Recovery Dharma       Celebrate Recovery

What is Supplemental Recovery/Recovery Support Groups?

100

_________ at a time. (What is this slogan)

What is One day at a time?
200

The diminishing effect if a drug after repeated use.

What is tolerance

200

Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examines of this useful tool in recovery

What is a coping skill?

200
Ther term used when an individual has both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder

What is a Co-occuring disorder?

200

An international peer-led mutual aid fellowship dedicated to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism through its spiritually-inclined Twelve Step program.

What is Alcoholics Anonymous?

200

A behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse, social, psychological, and/or physical consequences, and a  need for an increased amount of the substance as times goes on to achieve the same effect 

What is addiction?

300
A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse.

What is a trigger?

300

If you work on these 3 holistic things its said to help your recovery

What is Mind, Body, and Spirit

300

In ______ we celebrate National Recovery Month?

What is September?

Bonus: What does SAMHSA stand for?

300

Refuge Recovery and Recovery Dharma

What is Buddist based recovery groups?

300

A hypothesis that states: The initial substance that overtime causes the likelihood of engagement with another substance?

What is the gateway hypothesis?


400

The chemical messenger released into the brain when doing drugs

What is Dopamine?

Bonus: What activities can release dopamine?

400

Some high-risk situations to avoid are not let yourself get too hungry, angry, lonely, or tired. What can help you remember these circumstances?

What is HALT?

400

The withdrawal from these two substances can be fatal?

What is alcohol and benzodiazepines?

400

A behaviorally based support group run by trained facilitations?

What is Smart Recovery?

400

Emotional or physical limits that people set to create a healthy sense of personal space

What is a boundary?

500

Common in early recovery, ____ is the inability to feel pleasure from normally pleasurable things.

What is Anhedonia

500

Information or an emergency kit to help prevent an individual from using again. This kit could include 12 step information, important phone numbers, healthy activities to participate in, and coping skills

What is a relapse prevention plan?


Bonus: What are the three stages of relapse?

500

What is P. A.W. S.?

What is Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome?


Bonus: true or false: PAWS can last anywhere from 6 months to 2 years after last use.

500

A group similar to AA or NA but for family members

What is Al-Anon?

500

What is step 8 of AA/NA

What is making a list of wrongs done to othes and being willing to make admends for those wrongs?