12 Steps
What is the first step? (100)
Admitting we are powerless
What is relapse prevention?
A way to help find/identify triggers and early warning signs of a relapse.
How many stages of change are there?
6
What is harm reduction?
Harm reduction attempts to reduce the adverse consequences of drug use or any any negative action.
In 2018, this U.S. law expanded access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder by allowing qualified nurse practitioners and physician assistants to prescribe buprenorphine, reflecting Step One of the 12 Steps by helping individuals admit powerlessness over addiction and seek medical help.
What is the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act?
In Step Four, members are asked to make this kind of inventory?
Then what step is this?.. What step is "Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs."
What is a searching and fearless moral inventory?
Step 5
This recovery pathway, gaining popularity in the 2010s–2020s, offers peer-led alternatives to 12-step programs.
What is SMART Recovery?
Step Tie-In (Step 2): Finding hope in multiple pathways to recovery.
What is the first stage of change?
Pre-contemplation
What is an example of harm reduction?
Safer use, using clean equipment, abstinence, using in a safe environment,
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted telehealth expansion, allowing patients to access addiction counseling virtually.
What is telehealth or virtual treatment?
Step Tie-In (Step 3): Turning your will over to recovery, even when methods change.
What is step 9
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
A relapse prevention plan is comprised of measures, techniques, and many different tools to avoid falling back into bad habits.
What is the 4 stage? And what step is it tied to?
Action- taking steps towards change
The Action stage is most closely tied to which Step in 12-step recovery (Step 3)
What is Step 3 (turning our will and lives over to our Higher Power)?
True or false: There are legal drug consumption supervised sites designed to provide a hygienic and stress-free environment for drug consumers.
True
Name 3-5 healthy coping skills.
deep breathing, meditation, coloring, walking, running, journaling...
Name the step that is "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings."
Step 7
Since the 2010s, this FDA-approved medication has been used monthly by injection to prevent relapse in opioid and alcohol use disorders.
What is Vivitrol (naltrexone)?
What is the 5th stage
Maintenance- Has achieved goals and working on maintaining change
Practicing grounding techniques like 5-4-3-2-1 helps clients manage this common relapse trigger.
What is anxiety or cravings?
What takes place in the determination stage? (stages of change)
Committed to changing, still considering what to do
What is step 11
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
What are some relapse warning signs?
Compulsive/impulsive behavior, isolation, lying, rejecting help, denial, not attending meetings/sessions, avoidance...
Name all 6 stages of change.
Pre-contemplation
Contemplation
action
Maintenance
Relapse/Slip
Studies since the 2010s show that physical activity, such as yoga or weightlifting, increases this brain chemical that supports mood stability in recovery.
What is dopamine (or endorphins)?
Name all the 12 steps.
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol–that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.