Big Book
Came to believe a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
What is the second step?
Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and Gambler's Anonymous are all examples of programs with this type of format that can support you in recovery.
What are 12 step fellowships?
Withdrawal from this substance can cause agitation, fever, hallucinations, seizures, and severe confusion.
What is Alcohol?
Each year in the United States, nearly 85,000 people die from this legal drug, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in our country.
What is alcohol? (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism).
To politely yet firmly stand up for yourself when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this.
What is assertiveness?
This person is a guide, a mentor, and a fellow recovering addict, who volunteers their time to help a newcomer in the 12-step program.
What is a sponsor?
One of these prescribed and federally regulated medications can help an opiate addicted individual start recovering from their addiction and structuring his or her life again.
What is methadone, Suboxone, and Naltrexone?
Withdrawal from this substance can cause anxiety, muscle aches, increased tearing, insomnia, runny nose, sweating, and yawning.
What is an Opiate?
Abuse of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs is costly to the United States, exacting this amount annually in costs related to crime, lost work productivity and healthcare.
What is 600 Billion?
This recovery network was established in the 1940s and started in California. It asserts that its therapeutic value for aiding people in recovery is that the program is based on people helping people.
What is Narcotics Anonymous?
The twelfth tradition asks members to place this before personalities.
What are Principles? (of A.A.).
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examples of this useful tool in recovery.
What is a coping skill?
Withdrawal from this drug can cause restless behavior, depressed mood, fatigue, increased appetite, vivid and unpleasant dreams and slowing of daily activity.
What is cocaine?
This gender is more likely to start using drugs in high school.
What is both male and female genders?
After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.
What is Marijuana?
"Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves."
What is step four?
An exaggerated or irrational thought pattern involved in the onset and perpetuation of psychopathological states, especially those more influenced by psychosocial factors, such as depression and anxiety.
What are cognitive distortions?
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headache, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, depressed mood, and difficulty concentrating.
What is caffeine?
There are now more than 13,000 people in this population who are struggling with addiction.
Who are newborn babies?
This term refers to an emerging family of drugs containing one or more synthetic chemicals related to an amphetamine-like stimulant found naturally in the Khat plant. Some users experience paranoia, agitation, and hallucinations; some even display psychotic and violent behavior, and deaths have been reported in several instances.
What is "bath salts"? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Meetings are self-supporting through this.
What is Our own contributions?
This is a virtual addiction Social Network with the purpose helping people with drug addiction, alcoholism, prescription drug addiction, pain killer addiction and more.
What is intherooms.com?
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headaches, nausea, constipation or diarrhea, falling heart rate and blood pressure, fatigue, drowsiness, insomnia, iritability, difficulty concentrating, and anxiety.
What is nicotine?
This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.
What is Tobacco? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
This is the process by which the addicted brain invents excuses that allow the person in recovery to edge close enough to relapse situations that accidents can happen.
What is Justification