Recovery Sayings
Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
Insanity
Which artist has albums named "Relapse" and "Recovery"?
Eminem?
This step is about admitting one's self as powerless and life being unmanageable
What is the first Step (Step 1)
An orchestrated attempt by one or many people – usually family and friends – to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis, or other serious problem.
What is an intervention?
A behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse social, psychological, and/or physical consequences, and a need for an increased amount of the substance, as time goes on, to achieve the same effect
What is addiction?
Changing these three things helps in early recovery.
People
Places
Things
This female musician was asked to go to rehab and she said "no, no, no". Thereafter, she died of a drug overdose.
Amy Winehouse?
The two co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous are named _________ and ___________.
Who is Dr. Bob Smith and Bill Wilson (just Bill & Dr. Bob is fine too)
A form of treatment where the patient lives in a recovery facility
What is Inpatient or Residential treatment
These 3 things are said to be essential for recovery. (H.O.W.)
Honesty
Open-mindedness
Willingness
Recovery is Progress not _____.
Perfection
This famous diva uttered the now famous phrase, "Crack is Wack" and died of an overdose.
Whitney Houston
This step includes a process of prayer and meditation as a method for improving connection with a higher power and asking for direction.
What is Step 11
A point in the treatment process where the user rids themselves of the drugs left in their body
What is detox?
This legal substance has been used and abused for thousands of years.
Alcohol
It works if you ___ ___.
Work It
This young male rap artist died of an overdose by ingesting drugs while on his private jet
Who is Juice World
This popular 12 step fellowship, originally started in 1982, is known for being all-inclusive.
What is Cocaine Anonymous (CA)
A group of people in which the user may meet with frequently that share similar issues that help each other through the recovery process
What is a support group or recovery fellowship?
A person, place, thing or event that can result in psychological and then physical relapse.
What is a trigger?
Our-----keep us sick.
Secrets.
This RB singer and his wife were heavy into alcohol and cocaine use and reported to have spent 1 million dollars in a day
Bobby Brown
This location, also known as the "Rubber Capital of the World" is also the birthplace of Alcoholics Anonymous
What is Akron, Ohio
the need to increase the dose over time to obtain the original effect. (In other words, higher doses are needed to produce the same "high".)
What is tolerance?
A state of mind you enter after being up for several days.
Psychosis