Body Chemistry
A person, place, thing or event that can result in a desire to use substances.
What is a trigger?
_________ at a time. (What is this slogan)
What is One day at a time?
The term used when an individual has both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder.
What is a Co-occuring disorder or Dual Diagnosis?
Admitting we are powerless over substance use.
What is the first step?
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy, listening to music, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examples of this useful tool in recovery.
What is a coping skill?
The chemical messenger released into the brain when using substances.
What is Dopamine?
The opposite of _____ is _____
Addiction, connection
The use of medications (including injections, pills, and liquids) in combination with counseling to help maintain sobriety.
What is Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)?
An international peer-led mutual aid fellowship dedicated to abstinence-based recovery from alcoholism through its spiritually-inclined Twelve Step program.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
A behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse, social, psychological, and/or physical consequences, and a need for an increased amount of the substance as times goes on to achieve the same effect
What is addiction?
The diminishing effect of a substance that occurs after repeated use.
What is Tolerance?
If you work on these 3 things, it's said to help your recovery
What is Mind, Body, and Spirit
In ______ we celebrate National Recovery Month?
What is September?
Bonus: What does SAMHSA stand for?
Recovery groups based on Buddhist principles.
What are Refuge Recovery and Recovery Dharma?
Information or an emergency kit to help prevent an individual from using again. This could include 12 step information, important phone numbers, healthy activities to participate in, and coping skills
What is a relapse prevention plan?
This binds to opioid receptors and can help reverse an overdose.
What is Naloxone or Narcan?
______ not perfection.
What is progress?
The withdrawal from these two substances can be fatal?
What is alcohol and benzodiazepines?
A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) based support group run by trained facilitators?
What is Smart Recovery?
Emotional or physical limits that people set to create a healthy sense of personal space
What is a boundary?
This part of the brain is responsible for decision-making and impulse control, and can become less active during active addiction?
What is the prefrontal cortex?
We must ___ ourselves before we can ___ others?
What is Forgive?
Commonly abbreviated as P. A.W. S.
What is Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome?
A group similar to AA or NA but for family members
What is Al-Anon?
A technique of noticing thoughts without judgment, often used to manage cravings or anxiety
What is mindfulness?