How Drugs affect the Body
12 Steps
Disease of Addiction
Denial, Am I sabotaging my Recovery?
Random
100
Long term effects of this substance use are lung infections, infection of the hears lining an valves, skin infections and collapsed veins.
What are opiates
100
What is the underlying principle of step one? (We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction)
What is honesty
100
In what organ are the brain stem, limbic system, cerebral cortex, three areas critically affected by drug use, located?
What is the brain
100
When problems become so bad that I cannot deny it I find a scapegoat and tell others it is not my fault.
What is Blaming
100
" Do or do not there is no try" this quote, can be applied to recovery and was made famous by a 3,000 year old Jedi
Who is yoda
200
use of this substance can cause gangrene in the bowels, seizures and brain damage
What is cocaine
200
This step reduces guilt and shame over the past and starts to liberate you from its power.Provides relief from anxiety and ego and commences the cleansing process.
What is step five : Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of wrongs.
200
Most substances used and abused target this system and rewire it.
What is the reward system
200
I begin to focus on others, not myself. I find others with a more serious problem and compare myself to them.
What is Comparing
200
This disease knows no age, gender, orientation, ethnicity, race, or socioeconomic status.
What is addiction
300
This causes jaundice, dementia, and pancreatitis
What is alcohol.
300
The individual part of the recovery community of NA/ AA that helps hold me accountable for my recovery.
Who is a sponsor
300
This hijacks our brain and begins to take control. Behaviors necessary for survival occur here.
What is the mid brain
300
I managed to stay clean for a while and things start to get better, instead of doing more I convince myself I am cured and put my addiction behind me.
What is Flight into health
300
The foundation this common saying in 12 steps is be a good person
What is do the next right thing
400
This may cause impaired thinking and and memory as well as hostile and erratic behavior
What are Benzodiazepines
400
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. Humility is the core concept of this step.
What is step seven. Humbly as Him to remove our shortcomings.
400
Addiction is not due to a defect in morality, race, gender or personality, but because a ________ has a defect and this generates symptoms.
What is an organ
400
I tell others that I may have a small problem with using but it only happened once ans really isn't as bad as people think.
What is minimizing
400
People, places and things that may begin the relapse process are called
What are triggers
500
use of this substance can affect mental health, cause personality disturbances, increase neuron loss decreasing the ability to learn new information.
What is THC
500
This step occurs when we honestly look inside ourselves.
What is step four made a searching and fearless moral inventory of oursleves
500
This part of the brain is where we make choices, contains emotions and wehere we attach spiritual and moral meaning.
What is the frontal cortex
500
I try to explain away my us by making up a good explanation of why I use and what is causing my problems.
What is Rationalizing.
500
In admitting our wrong doings and events of our past we take ownership. We take away it's power. " You have no power over me" is a quote made famous by Sarah in this 1980's cult classic
What is Labriynth