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.
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?
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 H.A.L.T stand for?
What is HUNGRY, ANGRY, LONELY, TIRED?
What is step 1?
What is We admitted we were powerless over drug/alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable?
This type of exercise increases neurotransmitters such as dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins, which improve mood, reduce pain, and enhance feelings of well-being.
What is aerobic exercise?
The goal is P____ not P____.
What is Progress not Perfection?
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?
What staff member LOVES to play games during group?
Who is Kymmie :) Hiiiiiii!
A return to substance use or addictive behaviors after a period of abstinence.
What is a return to use? (An appropriate way to refer to relapse)
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?"
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?
Chris demonstrates this by taking responsibility for his son and continuing to work toward a more stable future.
What is responsibility?
These are things from your past that you may need to acknowledge, learn from, and eventually let go of rather than allowing guilt and shame to control your recovery.
What are past mistakes?
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?
The need to feel secure, protected, and free from danger.
What are safety needs?
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?
These recovery resources provide peer support, shared experiences, and structured principles to help people maintain sobriety and build a healthier life.
What are self-help groups, 12-Step programs, and Alcoholics Anonymous?
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 is a person, place, thing, or situation that can increase the urge to use substances.
What is a trigger?
When a slip occurs or you are struggling with continued use, you can reach out to
Who is your sponsor?
This improves flexibility, strength, and balance while reducing stress, anxiety, and symptoms of depression
Yoga
These two men co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935.
Who are Bill Wilson (BILL W) and Dr. Bob Smith (DR. BOB)?
This well-known recovery prayer asks for the ability to accept what cannot be changed, courage to change what can be changed, and wisdom to know the difference.
What is the Serenity Prayer?
This person is who you contact if you are going to be late or miss a group.
Who is the group facilitator or counsellor?
The need for connection, friendship, acceptance, love, and a sense of belonging with others.
What are social needs?
Despite homelessness, financial struggles, and repeated setbacks, this character continued working toward a better life for himself and his son.
Who is Chris Gardner?
This quality is demonstrated when Chris continues pursuing his goals despite repeated obstacles and setbacks.
What is perseverance?
Meeting these essential physical, emotional, and social needs can support stability and reduce vulnerability to unhealthy coping behaviors.
What are basic human needs?
Being open to emotional risk, honest about your feelings or struggles, and willing to ask for help when needed.
What is vulnerability?
Choosing not to feed destructive impulses, addictive habits, or negative thinking means doing this.
What is starving your Red Dog?
Making healthy choices, building positive habits, and taking constructive actions are all ways of doing this.
What is feeding your Blue Dog?
The process of expressing thoughts, feelings, needs, and information while listening and understanding others.
What is communication? (Jenny if you picked this and got it right extra 25 points)
Believing that someone is reliable, honest, and will follow through on their words and commitments.
What is trust? (Mike if you picked this and got it right extra 25 points)
Being truthful and sincere with yourself and others, even when telling the truth may be difficult or uncomfortable.
What is honesty? (Kaity if you picked this and got it right extra 25 points)
Doing the right thing and staying true to your values, even when no one is watching.
What is personal integrity? (Arion if you picked this and got it right extra 25 points)
Showing respect and thoughtfulness by recognizing how your words and actions may affect others.
What is consideration? (Dan if you picked this and got it right extra 25 points)