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?
Every day, about 28 people in the United States die due to this — that's one person every 52 minutes.
What is drinking and driving? (Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ).
The first state to legalize marijuana.
What is Colorado?
What it is the world’s deadliest opioid, causing almost half (53%) of all overdose deaths nationwide.
What is Fentanyl?
This recovery network was established in the 1940s and started in California. It asserts that its therapeutic value for aiding people in recovery is that the program is based on people helping people.
What is Narcotics Anonymous?
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, Suboxone, and Naltrexone.
This drug slows both heart rate and respiration, which can be fatal when mixed with alcohol.
What are Sedatives, Hypnotics, and Anxiolytics as well as opiates? (Heroin, oxycontin, percocet, morphine, Xanax, Librium, Valium, Benadryl, Ambien) (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
This actor died at age 49 of a cocaine overdose and drowning.
Who is Whitney Houston?
THIS PERSON IS A TRUSTED FRIEND WHO IS THERE TO WALK YOU THROUGH THE STEPS, OR BE THERE FOR SUPPORT.
What are sponsors and mentors?
The combined with alcohol, this drug creates violent behavior and sexual promiscuity. This is very common with both of these substances, however they become even more likely when you mix them. This mix also causes significant kidney damage and worsens hangovers.
What is Meth? (Source: Addiction Center)
Research shows that young people’s brains keep developing well into their 20s. What effect could alcohol have on the development of the brain?
What is cognitive or learning problems later in life?
Which medicine, if given right away, can reverse the effects of a heroin or opioid overdose and prevent death?
What is Naloxone?
17-year-old actress on family-friendly TV when, she says, she first used cocaine and is now in recovery.
Who is Demi Lovato?
When mixed with alcohol this drug reduces the euphoric feeling and the physical impairments caused by the drug, but combining the two puts a tremendous strain on the kidneys. Mixing alcohol with this drug causes dangerous dehydration. To increase euphoria, users are more likely to use more of either substance when combined, resulting in heart failure, high blood pressure, seizures, loss of consciousness, panic attacks, and fainting.
What is an Ecstasy? (Source: Addiction Center)
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.
What is PCP?