SUD Facts
True or False:
Addiction is a disease of the brain
True
Wellspring Academy uses this platform for school
MIPS- Michigan International Prep School
True or False:
Narcotics Anonymous is a religious program
False: NA is a spiritual, not religious program
What is an example of a healthy coping skill?
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences
This drug as an approved anesthetic in humans and was discontinued in 1965 because patients often became agitated, delusional, and irrational while recovering from its anesthetic effects
PCP
What does PAWS stand for?
Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome
True or False:
Wellspring Academy students can only live in Oakland County
False
Recite two of the 12 Steps
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol — that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. 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 the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs
Name two positive stressors
Meeting or engaging in a challenge, coming in first place in a race. Getting a promotion at your job. Love, marriage, or childbirth. Riding a roller coaster. The holidays. Engaging in exercise, especially weight training
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
Alcohol
Name one of the four major classes of drugs
Stimulants, Depressants, Hallucinogens, or Opioids
What year was Wellspring Academy founded?
2020
This step states "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable."
Step One
What is CBT?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
This drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks
marijuana
Withdrawing from these two substances could be fatal
Alcohol and benzodiazepines
Wellspring Academy offers these two groups in the afternoon
Life skills and Recovery
How many times is the word "God" mentioned in the 12 Steps?
Five
This coping skill requires you to write your thoughts down on paper
journaling
There are now more than 13,000 people in this population who are struggling with addiction
Newborns
This drug reverses an overdose from opioids
naloxone or narcan
True or False:
You cannot earn a high school diploma at Wellspring Academy
False
What is a sponsor?
A sponsor is simply a mentor or a guide who has been in recovery and worked through the steps and no longer has to drink or use.
One cause of depression is an imbalance in ____. (Hint: something in the brain)
neurotransmitters
This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States
Tobacco