Recovery 1
Most common addiction across the nation...
What is alcohol? The 2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) indicates that 28.9 million people aged 12 and older, or 10.2% of this population, battled an alcohol use disorder in the past year.
Substance with a high death rate in the U.S., higher than suicide
What is Fentanyl? Deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone (primarily illicitly manufactured fentanyl or IMF) decreased from 73,838 overdose deaths reported in 2022, to 72,776 in 2023. Those involving cocaine continued to increase with 29,449 deaths in 2023 (Source: CDC WONDER).
Process by which the body rids itself of a drug...
What is Detoxification or Withdrawal?
Used to combat heroin/opiate overdose...
What is Narcan or Naloxone?
Professional specializing in treating mental & emotional disorders is known as...
What is Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Therapist, Counselor?
What does HALT stand for?
What is HUNGRY, ANGRY, LONELY, TIRED?
What is the first step?
What is We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable?
One of the fastest addicting drugs is...
What is Nicotine? (or Crack Cocaine, Heroin, Fentanyl, Alcohol, Methamphetamine)
This style of communication involves expressing your needs clearly and respectfully, without being passive or aggressive.
What is assertive communication?
A____ is always necessary for an individual to take control of their future sobriety and avoid future relapse.
What is a Relapse Prevention Plan?
Feelings of extreme sadness, shame, guilt and/or dispair...
What is Depression?
Feelings of worry, uneasiness, or dread...
What is Anxiety?
This 7-letter word describes a person in a 12-step program who guides a newcomer through the recovery steps.
What is a sponsor?
A return to substance use or addictive behaviors after a period of abstinence.
What is a Relapse?
Violent or aggressive behavior within the home. Is common after coming under the influence
What is Domestic Violence, assault, and theft?
Stress disorder AFTER traumatic event...
What is PTSD?
Abstinence from illicit drugs and alcohol with a commitment to a lifestyle of physical, mental, and emotional well-being and clear-headedness...
What is Sobriety?
Treatment that includes living onsite and receiving group and individual therapies.
What is a Residential Treatment Facility?
They help us manage our emotions related to difficult times to improve emotional health and help us grow as people. Behaviors, attitudes, and approaches are...
What are Healthy Coping skills or tools?
This science-based, secular alternative to 12-step programs stands for Self-Management and Recovery Training.
What is SMART Recovery?
Drugs in this category include cocaine, amphetamines and caffeine
What are Stimulants?
A powerful desire for something that usually passes.
What is a Craving?
Can be Internal, Sensory, and/or External. Is the biggest reason for relapse
What are Triggers?
This word represents the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties and adapt to life's challenges.
What is resilience?
What type of triggers are activated by what you see, hear, smell, taste, or feel?
Sensory Triggers
A realization period for someone suffering from addiction. It’s a stage where they will look outside of themselves, or inside of themselves, and find a newfound perspective or purpose.
What is a Spiritual Awakening?
Name an example of an external relapse trigger.
What is People, places, and things?
The 3rd step in the 12 steps
What is Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
With continued substance use the brain will stop producing this brain chemical that enables pleasure...
What is Dopamine?
Something greater than themselves in recovery
What is A higher power
Our brain learns by _________ and _________
What is Repetition and reward
This support group is specifically designed for the friends and families of individuals struggling with addiction.
What is Al-Anon (or Nar-Anon)?
This practice involves focusing on the present moment without judgment to reduce stress.
What is mindfulness?
This chemical messenger in the brain spikes during drug use and is linked to pleasure and reward.
What is dopamine?
AA founded in this year by this person
What is 1935, and who Bill Wilson?
This term describes a brief, isolated return to substance use that is immediately stopped, distinct from a full-blown relapse.
What is a slip (or lapse)?
This organ is the primary site for detoxifying alcohol and drugs from the bloodstream.
What is the liver?
A way to benefit from group is to
What is participate?
These are the people, places, things, or emotions that cause a sudden urge to use again.
What are triggers?
When a slip occurs or you are struggling with continued use, you can reach out to
Who is your sponsor?
This term describes a relationship dynamic where one person supports or enables another's addiction
What is codependency?
Doing this involves making up for past wrongs through changed behavior, not just saying "I'm sorry."
What is making amends?
The goal is P____ not P____.
What is Progress not Perfection?
Meditation, mindfulness, exercise, therapy calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examines of this useful tool in recovery
What is a coping tool?
An automatic body reaction in which the body prepares a response to confront or escape from a perceived or real threat
What is "fight or flight?"
PAWS is an acronym for this syndrome, which involves roller-coaster symptoms like anxiety and insomnia months after quitting.
What is Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome?
This type of professional helps clients create a personalized plan to rebuild their life, distinct from a therapist.
What is a Recovery Coach (or Peer Support Specialist)?
This rule of thumb suggests making no major life changes—like starting a new romantic relationship—during this specific timeframe of early recovery.
What is the first year?
This improves flexibility, strength, and balance while reducing stress, anxiety, and symptoms of depression
Yoga