RECOVERY
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?
A primary emotion that most addicts feel prior to picking up drugs and/or alcohol for the first time.
What is fear?
After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.
What is marijuana?
Each year in the United States, nearly 85000 people die from this legal drug, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in our country.
What is alcohol?
The order of colors on a piece of candy corn, from base to tip.
What is yellow, orange, and white?
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?
This spiritual principle is necessary when surrendering to a higher power.
What is faith?
This term refers to an emerging family of drugs containing one or more synthetic chemicals related to an amphetamine. Some users experience paranoia, agitation, and hallucinations; some even display psychotic and violent behavior, and deaths have been reported in several instances.
What are bath salts?
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?
Sprinkle this on your doorstep if you want to keep spirits out of your house on Halloween.
What is salt?
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
What is the serenity prayer?
In active addiction, addicts often lose this.
What are friends, or family?
Withdrawal from this substance can cause anxiety, muscle aches, increased tearing, insomnia, runny nose, sweating, and yawning.
What is an opiate?
This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, death in the United States.
What is tobacco?
The first jack-o-lanterns were carved out of these.
What are turnips?
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, soboxone, or naltrexone?
"I am powerless over my addiction and my life has become unmanageable."
What is the first step?
When combined with alcohol, these drugs may cause impulsive violent behavior, but more research is needed.
What are anabolic steroids?
There are now 13000 people in this population who struggle with addiction.
Who are newborn babies?
In this classic Halloween movie, Max Dennison accidentally resurrects three sister witches from the Salem witch trials.
What is Hocus Pocus?
Psychologist Milton Erickson asked an alcohol user struggling with sobriety to contemplate this plant, which subsequently caused the alcohol user to gain and maintain his sobriety.
What is a cactus?
We must do this for ourselves before we can do it for others.
What is forgiveness?
This drug was an approved anesthetic in humans and was discontinued in 1965 because patients often became agitated, delusional, and irrational while recovering from its effects.
What is PCP?
This is the percentage of people addicted to drugs and/or alcohol receive treatment.
What is 10 percent?
Mary Shelley wrote this novel about a classic Halloween monster.
What is "Frankenstein"?