Stages of Change
Name That Therapy
Lights, Camera, Addiction!
Nothing To Do With Recovery!
About The Brain
100

When you continue to work a recovery program over time in order to sustain your sobriety.

What is MAINTENANCE

100

A meditative experience using audio waves that are created with healing instruments such as gongs, crystal bowls, percussion, chimes, rattles, tuning forks, and even the human voice itself.

What is Sound Bath?

100

This superhero "Avenged" his drug addiction by getting clean and sober.

Who is Robert Downy Junior?

100

This is the animal on California's flag.

What is a bear?

100

The name for chemical messengers in the brain like Dopamine and Serotonin.

What are Neurotransmitters?

200

You want nothing to do with recovery.

What is PRE=CONTEMPLATION?

200

You relive traumatic or triggering experiences in brief doses while the therapist directs your eye movements.

What is EMDR?


200

She sang about rehab but could not embrace it, dying from alcohol poisoning at age 27.

Who is Amy Winehouse?

200

This type of bird is on a Froot Loops Box.

What is a Toucan?

Toucan Sam is the cartoon toucan mascot for Froot Loops breakfast cereal. The character has been featured in advertising since 1963.

200

A type of brain damage that is caused by alcohol abuse.

What is Wet Brain or Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome?

300

You have decided that you want to stay sober, and now you are developing a plan to begin the process.

What is PREPARATION?

300

A technique for healing that balances the flow of energy or life force — known as chi or qi (chee) — believed to flow through pathways (meridians) in your body.

What is Acupuncture?

300

The First Lady of sobriety started a prominent rehab in the 1980's that is still going strong.

Who is Betty Ford?

300

He is Bugs Bunny's archenemy?

Who is Elmer J Fudd?

300

Planning, organization, logical thinking and reasoning are all constructed in this part of the brain.

What is the Frontal Lobe?

400

People have been bugging you for so long about your drinking and using that now you are actually considering the possibility that maybe they're right.

What is CONTEMPLATION?

400

Healing through hyperventilation.

What is BreathWorks?

400

A young wizard faces many evil foes, but none more sinister than alcoholism. Name the actor.

Who is Daniel Radcliffe?

The Harry Potter star stated that quitting alcohol showed him a “world of happiness” that he would not have discovered if he didn’t get sober.

400

He was our 2nd US President.

Who is John Adams?

He was a remarkable political philosopher and served as the second President of the United States (1797-1801), after serving as the first Vice President under President George Washington.

400

The "fight or flight" response is found in this part of the brain.

What is the Limbic System or the Amygdala?

500

Now you're getting your hands dirty... you are starting to apply the tools of Recovery in your life.

What is ACTION?

500

A form of psychotherapy that places the individual into a “trance” or altered state of awareness to deal with chronic pain, insomnia, anxiety, etc.

What is Hypnotherapy?

500

This Pop-Rocker's name signified royalty, but he was dethroned by fentanyl at age 57.

Who is Prince?

500

This organ in the human body produces insulin. 

What is the Pancreas?

500

Drugs need to cross over this "wall" in order to enter the brain and create there effect.

What is the Blood Brain Barrier?

The purpose of the blood–brain barrier is to protect against toxins or pathogens that could cause brain infections.