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200

A person's confidence in their ability to maintain recovery and make healthy choices.


Answer: What is self-efficacy?

200

This HBO drama featured a central character, Rue Bennett, struggling with addiction and recovery.


Answer: What is Euphoria?

200

Founded in 1935, this was the first worldwide fellowship dedicated to helping people recover from alcoholism through peer support.


Answer: What is Alcoholics Anonymous?

200

Originally developed to treat ADHD, this stimulant is sometimes misused for its energizing effects.


Answer: What is amphetamine?

200

This country is home to the largest recovery fellowship in the world, founded in 1935.


Answer: What is the United States?

400

A recovery approach focused on reducing negative consequences rather than requiring immediate abstinence.


Answer: What is harm reduction?

400

This 1996 British film follows a group of heroin users navigating life in Edinburgh.


Answer: What is Trainspotting?

400

This physician is often credited as one of the first Americans to describe alcoholism as a disease rather than a moral weakness.


Answer: Who is Benjamin Rush?

400

This opioid was first marketed in the late 1890s as a supposedly safer alternative to morphine.


Answer: What is heroin?

400

This Scandinavian nation dramatically reduced youth substance use through organized sports, family involvement, and after-school programs.


Answer: What is Iceland?

600

The emotional, mental, and physical discomfort experienced when a substance is stopped or reduced.


Answer: What is withdrawal?

600

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

This Netflix series about a horse actor frequently explored themes of addiction, relapse, and recovery.


DOUBLE JEOPARDY

Answer: What is BoJack Horseman?

600

This medication became the first FDA-approved treatment for opioid addiction in the 1970s.


Answer: What is Methadone?

600

This dissociative anesthetic has recently gained attention for its potential role in treating depression.


Answer: What is ketamine?

600

This Canadian city became one of the first in North America to establish supervised consumption sites.


Answer: What is Vancouver?

800

A state in which a person experiences both a substance use disorder and a mental health condition.


Answer: What is co-occurring disorder?

800

A recovering alcoholic high school basketball coach seeks redemption while leading a struggling team.


Answer: What is The Way Back?

800

This nation became the first country to decriminalize possession of all drugs for personal use in 2001.


Answer: What is Portugal?

800

This hallucinogenic compound found in certain mushrooms acts primarily on serotonin receptors.


Answer: What is psilocybin?

800

This South American country is the world's largest producer of coca leaves, the plant from which cocaine is derived.


Answer: What is Bolivia?

1000

This phrase refers to replacing an unhealthy addiction with healthy habits, relationships, and purpose.


Answer: What is recovery capital?

1000

A journalist investigates the rise of the opioid epidemic through one family's story.


Answer: What is Dopesick?

1000

This court case was the first U.S. Supreme Court decision to rule that addiction itself could not be criminalized.


Answer: What is Robinson v. California?

1000

LSD belongs to this class of drugs that alter perception and sensory experiences.


Answer: What are hallucinogens?

1000

This Asian nation has one of the world's strictest anti-drug laws and imposes severe penalties for trafficking.


Answer: What is Singapore?