Recovery Basics
What is the first step in the 12-step recovery program?
What is admitting you are powerless over your addiction?
Name for a person also in recovery who can offer you lived experiences, guidance, resources, and assist in working through the 12 Steps.
Who is Sponsor/ Peer Support
This term describes someone who has both a substance use disorder and a mental health condition.
What is co-occurring disorders (or dual diagnosis)?
This term refers to the process of safely removing a substance from the body.
What is detox?
Excessive use of this substance can lead to liver cirrhosis.
What is Alcohol?
In what month do we celebrate national Recovery Month?
What is September?
Meetings for family or friends of those struggling with alcohol or drug abuse.
What is Al-Anon?
People with mental health symptoms sometimes turn to drugs or alcohol for relief instead of treatment. What is this called?
What is self medicating?
“Over time, people often need higher amounts of a substance to feel the same effect. This is known as what?”
What is tolerance?
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences.
What is a coping skill?
This type of thinking can trick people into believing they don’t need help, even when their life is falling apart.
What is denial?
In a 12-step group, this is the term for the ________ step, which involves writing down a detailed moral inventory of oneself.
What is the fourth step?
This trauma-related condition can cause emotional detachment, memory gaps, and “numbing out,” and is sometimes confused with laziness or apathy in recovery.
What is dissociation?
This condition, often associated with alcohol, involves the inability to remember events that occurred while intoxicated.
What is blackout?
This action helps you face problems instead of running from them.
What is asking for help?
Excessive emotional, physical, or psychological reliance on a partner.
What is codependency?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This is the scientifically proven speed at which the addict brain wants everything.
What is now (or faster than now)?
The frontal lobe of the brain is fully developed by this age.
What is Age 25?
Thoughts influence our feelings which influence our behaviors. What therapy is this the cornerstone of?
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
Long-term use of this drug can cause memory loss, mood swings, and significant damage to the brain’s ability to learn — even though it's often thought of as harmless.
What is Marijuana?
The act of being appreciative of the things in your life?
What is gratitude?
What is P. A.W. S.?
What is Post-Acute-Withdrawal-Syndrome?
Name the disorder that includes the following symptoms: excessive worry, sweaty palms, rapid heard rate, rapid breathing, and expecting the worst?
What is anxiety?
What is the name of the physical and emotional limits of appropriate behavior between people.
What is boundaries
TRIPPLE JEOPARDY
Common in early recovery, ____ is the inability to feel pleasure from normally pleasurable things.
What is Anhedonia?
What does the acronym HALT stand for?
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely Tired?
Support group that doesn’t include any aspects of spirituality or religion. Teach coping skills to help participants address four main points: Build and maintain motivation, Cope with urges, Manage thoughts, feeling and behaviors, and Live a balanced life.
What is SMART Recovery?
This disorder involves obsessive thoughts and repetitive behaviors, and people may use substances to quiet their anxiety.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
__________ is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction.
What is dopamine?
Getting enough rest, eating healthy, exercising, practicing mindfulness, and taking care of mental and physical health are examples of what?
What is Self Care