Recovery
Combined with Alcohol
Withdrawal
Startling Statistics
Wild Card
100

What do Chelsea, Jess, and Sara go to school for? 

What is occupational therapy?

100
When mixed with alcohol, this drug creates an abnormally rapid heart rate and amplified impairment of cognitive, psychomotor, and driving performance.
What is Cannabis? (Marijuana) (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
100
Withdrawal from this substance can cause agitation, fever, hallucinations, seizures, and severe confusion.
What is Alcohol?
100
Each year in the United States, nearly 85,000 people die from this legal drug, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in our country.
What is alcohol? (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism).
100
To politely yet firmly stand up for yourself when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this.
What is assertiveness?
200

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?

200
When combined with alcohol, there is a greater risk of overdose and sudden death than either drug alone.
What is cocaine? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
200
Withdrawal from this substance can cause anxiety, muscle aches, increased tearing, insomnia, runny nose, sweating, and yawning.
What is an Opiate?
200
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?
200

What were the three tracts of the Mental Wellness Workshop presented by Chelsea, Jess, and Sara?

What is stress management, sleep hygiene, and leisure and coping?

300

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?

300
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)
300
Withdrawal from this drug can cause restless behavior, depressed mood, fatigue, increased appetite, vivid and unpleasant dreams and slowing of daily activity.
What is cocaine?
300
This gender is more likely to start using drugs in high school.
What is both male and female genders.
300

Name the breathing techniques Chelsea spoke about during the stress management portion of the Mental Wellness Workshop?

What is five finger breathing, diaphragmatic breathing, and pursed lip breathing?

400

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. (MAT Program) 

400
When combined with alcohol, these drugs may cause impulsive violent behavior, but more research is needed.
What are Anabolic Steroids? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
400
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headache, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, depressed mood, and difficulty concentrating.
What is caffeine?
400

The number of drug overdose deaths in the US since 2000?

What is 700,000

400

What is the meditation technique where the main goal is to think and visualize a peaceful space or scenario to promote a calm and relaxing state. It can be used to decrease stress, improve sleep, used for pain management, and assist with behavioral change 

What is guided imagery? 

500

What year was Livengrin was founded? 

What is 1966?

500
When mixed with alcohol, this drug creates an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular effects, and may result in dangerously low blood pressure.
What is an inhalant? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
500
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headaches, nausea, constipation or diarrhea, falling heart rate and blood pressure, fatigue, drowsiness, insomnia, iritability, difficulty concentrating, and anxiety.
What is nicotine?
500
This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.
What is Tobacco? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
500

What is the defense mechanism defined as, "the refusal to accept reality, thus blocking external events from awareness."

What is denial?