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Trauma
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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?

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
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?
100

These skills are best for immediate relief from feeling trauma triggered and they often involve the breath

What are grounding skills

200
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?
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
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
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?
200

These are the names of the 2 main types of trauma

What are Big T and little t?

300
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.
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
This gender is more likely to start using drugs in high school.
What is both male and female genders.
300
After just one use, this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for three to six weeks.
What is Marijuana?
300

This part of the brain is the primal part that controls our fight, flight, and freeze response

What is the amygdala? 
400

Explain "Stinkin' Thinkin'" and give 2 examples


A warning sign of when old thoughts/behaviors start to creep back into a recovering person's thought process.
-"I can have just one", "It will be different this time", "I'm doing so much better now", "I've learned my lesson"

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

About this much of the LGBTQ+ community struggles with substance compared to just about 9% of the population as a whole. 

What is 30%

400
This term refers to an emerging family of drugs containing one or more synthetic chemicals related to an amphetamine-like stimulant found naturally in the Khat plant. Some users experience paranoia, agitation, and hallucinations; some even display psychotic and violent behavior, and deaths have been reported in several instances.
What is "bath salts"? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
400

The acronym ACE represents the 10 question scale that can predict how negative events from before the age of 18 may impact a persons adult life. This is what ACE stands for

What is Adverse Childhood Experiences

500

These are the 2 factors most commonly accepted as making one at risk for substance use disorder

What are biological predisposition and unmanaged stress

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
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
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?
500

The word for trauma comes from the Greek word Traumat, which means this.

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