Relapse prevention
feelings, individuals, or situations that cause your brain to crave substances; if you are unaware of them they could be a factor for relapse.
What are triggers?
a powerful desire to use substances
often perceived as "impulsive" and "uncontrollable"
What is craving?
This famous rock star died officially of heart failure, but after his death reportedly was found to contain high dosages of, among other things, the opiates Dilaudid, Percodan, and Demerol, as well as Quaaludes and codeine.
Who is Elvis?
A mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique
What is mindfulness?
This is when we blow things out of proportion. When we assumes that the worst will happen. Often, it involves believing that you're in a worse situation than you really are or exaggerating the difficulties you face.
What is catastrophizing?
______is the drug with the fastest amount of time to become addicted to it.
Nicotine
How could over commitment lead to relapse?
This can lead to feeling overloaded and under pressure.
Increased stress that promotes escapism
Encourages grandiosity and wishful thinking in high risk situations
*Recovery is not a race - it can set unrealistic expectations for recovery.
someone who guides a newcomer through the process of 12-step groups
Who is a sponsor?
This music artist had a hit pop song come out a few years before her death called 'Rehab'
Who is Amy Whinehouse?
The practice of taking an active role in regularly doing things that improve your well-being and happiness, in particular during periods of stress
What is self-care?
Characterized by thoughts such as, "If I am not perfect I have failed". or "Either I get it right or not at all".
What it Black and White or All or Nothing Thinking?
Protect an addict from facing the consequences of their substance-related problems
What is enabling?
what does the acronym HALT stand for?
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired
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.
Who is Robert Downey Jr.
3 examples of coping skills
If you gave 3 examples you got this one right.
What is the mental experience that can occur when we worry or stress over things causing inappropriate thinking and decisions
What is Anxiety?
Believing in our ability so greatly that it can cause us setbacks or problems in relation to recovery and mental health
overconfidence or lack of humilty
using another hobby, substance, or activity to replace or substitute feelings/results that you used to get from using
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.
Who is Johnny Cash?
The emotion we can often use to cover up loneliness, shame, frustration, or sadness and regularly creates harm in relationships through arguments and aggression.
What is anger?
What are the negative emotions which stem from holding on to anger and grudges
What are Resentments?
Name the best treatment center to attend if struggling with drugs or alcohol.
What is Lionheart Recovery Center
5 skills you can use to overcome cravings and triggers
If you were able to name 5 valid skills you have this one right..
The occurrence of mental and physical problems when someone who is addicted to drugs stops using the drugs.
What is Withdrawal?
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.
Who is Elton John?
positive statements that can help you to challenge and overcome self-sabotaging and negative thoughts, when you repeat them often
What are affirmations?
This categorizes and includes all that is most important in your life and what you care about the most, and what has the most worth to you.
What are values?
What are all 12 steps?
1. We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity,
3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings
8. We made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9 We made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. We 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 a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.