The Brain
The 12 Steps
Thinking
Lists
Fentanyl
100
The average adult brains weighs this many pounds.
What is three pounds?
100
Step 2 is about recognizing that a power or purpose is what than us.
What is greater?
Also accepted:
more powerful, bigger
100
"I was born a loser."
"I'll just fail. What's the point."
Are examples of this type of thinking.
What is negative thinking?
100
A big part of recovery is being able to once again this our minds.
What is organize?
100
Fentanyl, in a medical setting, is usually prescribed to treat this.
What is pain?
200
This part of the brain is in charge of decision-making, problem-solving, speech, and emotional/behavioral control.
What is the top of the brain or the frontal lobe.
(the top fingers in the hand brain model)
200
Step 1 is about admitting that we need what with our addiction.
What is help?
Also accepted:
treatment, aid, healing
200
"You know what, I did my best."
"I have a feeling I'll do better next time."
"Good things do come my way."
Are examples of this type of thinking.
What is positive thinking?
200
Fill in the blank:
Writing down our fears and history can help us move them them from trauma ______ stuck in middle of the brain to our reasoning areas at the top of our brains.
What is loops?
Also accepted:
cycles
200
A person experiencing this may have clammy skin, blue lips, dilated eyes, and weak heart pulse.
What is an overdose?
300
At bare minimum it takes at least this many days for the brain to rewire and change a habit. Give your answer in days.
What is at least 90 days?
300
Step 3 of the 12 Steps asks us to turn ourselves over to this supernatural being.
What is Allah, God, the Creator, or the Great Spirit?
300
"I'll turn my story into a book."
"I'll make a butterfly with this play-doh."
"I'll make a soup with these ingredients."
Are examples of this type of thinking.
What is creative thinking?
300
Fill in the blank:
______ or writing things down engages our reason, fine motor skills and frontal lobes.
Hint: It starts with a "J".
What is journaling?
300
Fentanyl is an opioid. Name another drug in the opioid category.
What morphine, codeine, oxycodone, heroin, percocet, or oxycontin?
400
This area deep in the center of the brain processes emotions and memories.
What is the amygdala or lizard part?
(the thumb on the hand brain model)
400
Step 4 asks us to make a what about ourselves and our lives. Hint: It involves writing and a notepad.
What is a moral inventory?
Also accepted:
What is a list?
400
"She is always like this."
"I never get my way."
"I can't ever do a single thing right."
"Noone listens to me." Are examples of this type of thinking.
What with all-or-nothing thinking?
Also accepted:
black-white thinking
400
Connecting the items of a to-do list to the time of day you do them and measuring how long they take is known as this.
What is time management?
400
Repeatedly injecting can cause these to collapse.
What are veins?
500
This brain chemical reinforces and rewards drug use or pleasurable activities.
What is dopamine?
500
Step 10 of the 12 step process requires that we regularly examine our own actions and admit when we are this.
What is wrong?
Also accepted:
caused the problem, incorrect, at fault
500
"Somebody's is always trying to trip me up and sabotage me and I think they're listening right now." Is an example of what type of thinking?
What is paranoid thinking?
500
This is the normal that our bodies adjust to after reacting to changes. Our bodies hunger stability and work to create it automatically.
What is homeostasis?
500
This life-saving drug reverses opioid overdoses.
What is narcan, naloxone, or nalmephene?