12 step
Name of the mutual support program for people whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking?
What is Al-anon?
Name the neurotransmitter primarily affected in addiction?
What is Dopamine?
Name the word that is defined compulsive physiological need for and use of a habit-forming substance?
What is addiction?
What is the biggest cause of relapse?
Stress
Name the term for when someone experiences a mental illness and a substance use disorder simultaneously?
What is Dual Diagnosis?
Another name for the book Alcoholics Anonymous?
What is The Big Book?
This is the term to describe how the brain needs more of a chemical to feel the same effects as before
What is tolerance?
50% of mental health problems begin by what age?
What is....
10
14
18
What is the name of the medication that is designed to rapidly reverse opioid overdose?
Narcan
Name 3 healthy coping mechanisms?
What is .....
Talk to someone you trust
Deep Breathing
Exercise
Therapy
Go to a meeting
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives became unmanageable.
What is the first step?
What are 3 healthy ways to release dopamine?
Exercise
Eating sweets or salty foods
Healthy relationships
Doing things that align with your values
What word is defined as a negative emotion which stems from holding on to anger and grudges?
Resentments
This type of coping strategy involves thinking about the things in life addiction makes worse/takes away
What is recalling negative consequences?
What is playing the tape through?
Name the leading cause of disability worldwide?
What is depression?
Fill in the blanks.....God, grant me the ______ to accept the things I cannot ______, courage to change the things I can, and ______ to know the difference.
What is serenity?
What is change?
What is wisdom?
The brain is a communications center consisting of billions of these, passing messages back and forth among different structures within the brain
What is synapses/Neurons?
In 2017, _______ was responsible for more than 28,000 deaths in the US, which is more deaths than from any other type of opioid.
Fentanyl
What is it called when with use of FDA-approved medications, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies to provide a “whole-patient” approach to the treatment of substance use disorders?
Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)
May is______ _______ awarenss month?
What is May?
Doctor's Opinion
Bill's Story
There is a Solution
More about Alcoholism
We Agnostics
How it Works
Into Action
Working with Others
To the Wifes
The Family Afterward
To the Employers
Vision for You
Basal Ganglia
Name the word that is defined by failure to recognize the truth about a problem, particularly an addiction?
What is Denial?
The first stage of treatment
What is detox?
Sometimes addiction can be directly linked to deeply disturbing or distressing experiences that occurred earlier in life all of which is referred to as: _____
What is Trauma/PTSD?