Brain & Body
What is the fastest addicting drug?
What is Nicotine?
True or False: Some research indicates that longer treatment programs are more effective at reducing relapse than shorter ones.
What is True?
What is the intense desire or urge for a substance?
What is a craving?
These skills help us manage our emotions related to difficult times and decrease the chances of relapse.
What are healthy coping skills?
The first symptom experienced as a sign your developing a substance use disorder?
What is increased tolerance?
What is the most addicting food ingredient?
What is sugar?
Abstaining from alcohol or drugs is called?
What is Sobriety?
This term describes an internal or external cue that can lead someone to think about using substances again.
What is a Trigger?
What coping skill involves focusing on the present moment without judgment?
What is mindfulness?
Client-centered values and internal beliefs can drive behavior. What is this called in recovery language?
What is motivation?
With continued substance abuse, the brain will slow production of this chemical that enables pleasure.
What is Dopamine?
Name a substance with a high death rate in the U.S., even higher than suicide.
What is Fentanyl?
How many times does the average person relapse before achieving long-term recovery?
What is 5-7 times?
This recovery tool encourages people to pause and check for basic physical and emotional needs that, when unmet, can increase risk of relapse.
What is H.A.L.T (Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired)?
This motivational tool helps people in recovery view the negatives and positives of their use and sobriety.
What is a cost benefit analysis?
Our brains learn by _______ and _______? (Think habits)
What is repetition and reward?
What is the process by which the body rids itself of substances?
What is detox (detoxification)?
What is it called when you have too much time to be in your own thoughts (think early recovery)?
This coping tool involves planning ahead for high-risk situations and setting clear boundaries to protect your recovery.
What is having a relapse prevention plan?
This is a powerful reason many people stay on track- it often includes, children, family, or a future they want to build.
What is "why" or our why?
Long-Term Substance use can alter this part of the brain responsible for decision-making, impulse control, and judgement.
What is the pre-frontal cortex?
This substance can impair short-term memory, alter judgment, and distort perception, especially when used heavily at a young age.
What is Marijuana?
One of the most common effective coping skills a person in early recovery can develop is?
What is a routine/structure?
Humans are wired to solve problems in two ways. What are those two ways?
What is avoiding and controlling AKA emotional and logical?
Of the 5 stages of change, what is the 3rd stage?
What is the preparation stage?