Addiction ABCs
What is the term for behaviors that support someone’s addiction?
Enabling
What is the primary brain chemical that spikes during substance use?
Dopamine
An event that seeks to increase an alcoholic's desire to quit by confronting them.
Intervention
A powerful, addictive, central nervous system depressant produced by fermentation of yeast.
Alcohol
Who or what do 12-step members rely on for spiritual help?
Higher Power
Prolonged substance use causing mental/physical need?
Dependence
Which organ is commonly damaged by heavy alcohol use?
Liver
What do we create to avoid returning to substance use?
Relapse Prevention Plan
Considered to be the "Gateway Drug"?
Marijuana
Which short prayer is often recited in meetings?
Serenity Prayer
What is it called when you stop all substance use?
Abstinence
How long does it take your body to break down 1 unit of alcohol?
1 Hour
What was it called when the American government banned the sale and consumption of alcohol in the 1920's?
Prohibition
The most commonly consumed psychoactive substance on earth
Caffeine
Accept the facts and accept what you cannot change.
Radical Acceptance
What are thoughts that are harmful to recovery and are usually things we tell ourselves to talk us into using again?
Denial, Rationalization, Justification
This population absorbs alcohol slower because they have less of the enzyme which breaks it down.
Women
Transferring unacceptable feelings or impulses to another.
Projection
Which medication is a short-acting anesthetic commonly used for human procedures?
Ketamine
This step is often cited as "the only step you have to do perfectly".
Step 1
What are four vulnerable states that raise relapse risk? (there is a common recovery acronym for this)
HUNGRY
ANGRY
LONELY
TIRED
Name 3 specific areas of the body that can be affected by drug use
Mouth
Liver
Throat
Lungs
Skin
Kidney
Bladder
Heart
Brain
What percentage of those addicted to substances receive treatment? (Closest wins)
10%
What was an ingredient of Coca-Cola that is no longer there?
Cocaine
Who created the NA book?
Anonymous