Addiction
What month do we celebrate recovery month?
September!
Withdrawal from this substance can cause agitation, fever, hallucinations, seizures, and severe confusion.
Alcohol
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examples of this useful tool in recovery.
Coping skills!
True or False: Alcohol is a depressant
True!
These are people, places, objects, feelings, and times that cause cravings.
Triggers
True or False: LSD was once used to treat people struggling with alcohol addiction.
True!
What percent of fatal car accidents involved an alcohol impaired driver in 2016?
28%
Name at least three types of sober support group meetings.
Al-non Family Groups
Adult and Child of Alcoholics
AA
Cocaine Anonymous
NA
Smart Recovery
Women For Sobriety
True or False: Tobacco is a depressant
False! Tobacco is a stimulant!
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.
Sponsor
What percent of adults in the United States struggle with alcohol or drug addiction?
About 10% or 23.5 million!
What percent of people who use drugs IV contract hepatitis C?
C. 60-80%
What are 5 skills you have learned to help you cope with cravings or triggers?
Meditation
Watching comedy movies/shows
Spending time with sober friends
Attending sober support group meetings
Yoga
Gardening
True or False: Opioid addiction only happens after long term use.
False!
_____ is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
Dopamine
What popular drug was originally used as a non addictive, safe remedy for morphine addiction?
Heroin
Withdrawal from this substance can cause anxiety, muscle aches, increased tearing, insomnia, runny nose, sweating, and yawning.
Opioids
Our brain learns by repition and ____
Reward
True or False: chewing tobacco is safer than smoking.
False! Chewing tobacco actually increases your risk for cancer.
To politely yet firmly stand up for yourself when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this.
Assertiveness
% of adults in the U.S who have been diagnosed with a substance use disorder and also have a mental health diagnosis.
50.5%
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headaches, nausea, constipation or diarrhea, falling heart rate and blood pressure, fatigue, drowsiness, insomnia, irritability, difficulty concentrating, and anxiety.
Nicotine
The acronym H.A.L.T stands for:
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
True or false: Heavy alcohol use may reduce fertility in men and women.
True! Heavy alcohol consumption decreases female hormones.
With more severe addiction, particularly opioid, if the withdrawal or cravings are overwhelming it may be wise to consider seeing a doctor for this...
Suboxone and Methadone