Multiple Pathways
A sustainable grassroots movement that provides culturally based healing for the next seven generations of Indigenous people.
What is the
Someone who helps guide a newcomer through the processes of a 12-step program.
What is a sponsor?
The basic text for Alcoholics Anonymous
The Big Book
This is a Non-profit center for the recovery community that offer local networks of non-medical, recovery support services.
What is a
A movie about a hard-drinking New York journalist who takes her reputation as the life and soul of the party too far when she knocks over her sister's wedding cake and crashes the bridal limousine. When a court orders her into rehab for a month, she initially refuses, but eventually she begins to take her substance abuse seriously.
28 Days
This Recovery Support Group is a peer-led, grass-roots, democratically-structured organization. Our mission is to support individuals on their path of recovery from addiction using Buddhist practices and principles.
What is Refuge Recovery or Recovery Dharma?
Someone who works to remove barriers, provide support, and facilitates access to resources.
What is a peer recovery coach?
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference."
Serenity Prayer
Getting support from a professional who can help with mental health and addiction concerns
Therapy
This metallic man has been in recovery since 2003. He was introduced to drugs by his famous father and spent time in jail. He saw a resurgence in his popularity since entering recovery and staring in a series of hit movies.
Robert Downey Jr.
FAN has a program that aims to assist survivors of drug overdoses that comprises of a police officer, a recovery coach, and family coach.
What is Comeback QRT?
Feelings, people, or situations that cause the brain to want to use substances. If you're not aware of them, they can cause you to want to relapse
What are triggers? *Share about your triggers
Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
The author of "Chasing the Scream"
Who is Johann Hari?
This famous British singer, songwriter, and pianist recently had a biopic made of his life. He was knighted by the Queen of England and is one of the best selling musical artists of all time. He went through recovery, built AA/NA meetings into his tour schedule, and has also sponsored other celebrities such as Eminem.
Elton John
With her own sobriety established by methods other than the traditional AA Program, Dr. Kirkpatrick formed this organization and the New Life Program, and devoted the remainder of her life to helping women with addictions. What Recovery Program did Dr. Jean Kirkpatrick start?
What is Women for Sobriety?
Symptoms you experience several weeks or months after you have finished detoxing that are related to the body healing from substance use
What is Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS)?
"We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."
a person who, because of his or her profession, is legally required to report any suspicion of child abuse or neglect to the relevant authorities. These laws are in place to prevent children from being abused and to end any possible abuse or neglect at the earliest possible stage.
What is a mandated reporter?
A biopic of a famous country music legend and his rise to fame in Tennessee. While on tour, he meets the love of his life, singer June Carter. However, things take a turn when he becomes involved in drugs and his marriage to first wife, Vivian, begins to fall apart. June eventually helps him recover from his addiction and he proposes to her in front of a live audience.
Walk the Line
This Recovery Program uses the “3-S” Philosophy and is short-handed for the fundamental principles of the program: Sobriety, Secularity, and Self-Help. This program also encourages cross talk and generally starts with the question “How was your week?”
What is LifeRing?
This state of mind can be fatal for recovery! It's characterized by being too comfortable or not feeling motivated to continue doing the work
What is complacency?
The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using.
NA Tradition 3
The average age children experiment with drugs.
What is 13 years old?
This famous actor is known for his character named after a weapon. He served jail time and became a boxing champion in San Quentin, after which he completed a 12-step program and has been sober for over 4 decades. He was first discovered as an actor while attending an AA meeting! Now he is a successful restaurateur and appeared as the Racoon in the Masked Singer show.
Danny Trejo