The Basics
Something greater than our addiction and ourselves.
What is a Higher Power?
What are stimulants?
The largest 12 step recovery program in the world.
Defensiveness, denial, rationalization.
What is Pre-Contemplation?
The "pleasure chemical" of the brain.
What is dopamine?
The tools we use during high stress moments.
What are coping skills?
Alcohol, opiates, and marijuana.
What are depressants?
The second 12 step group formed. (Think carefully.)
What is Al-Anon/Alateen?
Ambivalence, lack of commitment, occasional denial.
What is Contemplation?
This is how long PAWS symptoms can last, and how long it can take your brain to fully recover from use.
What is 6 months to 2 years?
The answer to all my problems today.
What is Acceptance?
LSD, Psilocybin, and DMT.
What are hallucinogens?
A Buddhist approach to recovery.
What is Refuge Recovery/Recovery Dharma?
Commitment, planning, research.
What is Preparation/ Determination?
Five symptoms of PAWS include:
Foggy thinking/trouble remembering, Urges and cravings, Irritability or hostility, Sleep disturbances, Fatigue, Issues with fine motor coordination, Stress sensitivity, Anxiety or panic, Depression, Lack of initiative, Impaired ability to focus, Mood swings
The most important person in a 12 step meeting.
Diazepam, Alprazolam, and Lorazepam
What are benzodiazepines?
A recovery group focused on introducing and practicing CBT skills.
What is SMART Recovery?
Entering treatment/ recovery fellowships, informing people close of movement, internal work beginning.
What is Action?
This part of the brain powers the ability to think, plan, solve problems, make decisions, and exert self-control over impulses, and is the last part to fully mature.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Expectations are _______ under construction.
What are Resentments?
Phenobarbital, Primidone, and Butisol.
What are barbiturates?
The early AA got its ideas of self-examination, acknowledgment of character defects, restitution for harm done, and working with others from This Group, a predecessor to 12 Step Programs
What is the Oxford Group?
Strengthening of recovery, internal contentment, rebuilding of relationships vigilance towards triggers and old behaviors.
What is Maintenance?
What is the amygdala?