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an international mutual aid fellowship with the stated purpose of enabling its members to "stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety."
What is AA?
What is withdrawal?
the unpleasant physical and mental effects that result when you stop doing or taking something, especially a drug, that has become a habit
take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.
What is stealing?
130 Americans daily
The amount of opioid overdoses
This character created in 1940 was originally called Super American.
Who is Captain America?
This allows people to assess their choices, anticipate how people will react, and follow their intentions. It is about imagining the upsides and downsides of our actions.
What is Consequential Thinking?
What is CBT?
Works by changing people's attitudes and their behavior by focusing on the thoughts, images, beliefs and attitudes that are held (a person's cognitive processes) and how these processes relate to the way a person behaves, as a way of dealing with emotional problems.
a statement made by one who does not believe it with the intention that someone else shall be led to believe it
What is a lie?
34.2 million Americans did what in 2017?
Committed DUI
This superhero was originally meant to be grey
Who is the Hulk?
an intense desire for a particular thing
What is a craving?
What is a trigger?
social, environmental or emotional situations that remind people in recovery of their past drug or alcohol use.
the condition of being alone, especially when this makes you feel unhappy
What is isolation?
21 million Americans
The amount of Americans with at least one addiction
The highest grossing superhero movie of all time
What is Avengers End Game
treatment aimed at making up a deficit of a substance normally present in the body. (Methadone, Suboxone)
What is replacement therapy?
What is a psychological dependence?
a state that involves emotional–motivational withdrawal symptoms
What is a cross addiction?
occur when people addicted to a specific substance cease or decrease use of that substance. These individuals then start using a new substance under the belief that it will not cause the same addiction problems.
34 million Americans
Americans that smoke cigarettes
Who is the Black Panther?
a set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders
What is Psychoanalysis?
What is MAT?
Medication Assisted Treatment
the use of FDA-approved medications, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, to provide a "whole-patient" approach to the treatment of substance use disorders.
the practice of desperately holding onto sobriety without working a recovery program
What is white knuckle sobriety?
10% in America
The amount of people with addictions that receive treatment
Who is the first female superhero
Fantomah (1940) also known as the woman in red