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.
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 our addiction and that our lives had become unmanageable?
One of the fastest addicting drugs is...
What is Nicotine? (or Crack Cocaine, Heroin, Fentanyl, Alcohol, Methamphetamine)
What is the stage of change where individuals are unaware of or deny the problem?
Precontemplation
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 is the minimum recommended length of time a person should stay in treatment for the best chance of staying sober?
What is 90 days?
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
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?
What does the term "dual diagnosis" refer to?
What is the coexistence of a mental health disorder and a substance use disorder?
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?
An early symptom experienced in a substance use disorder...
What is Increased tolerance, using more than you intended, or loss of interest in previously enjoyed activities?
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?
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
What is the 3rd step in the 12 steps
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
Two acronyms for FEAR
What is Face Everything And Recover or
False Evidence Appearing Real
The six most addictive drugs rated are
What is Nicotine, Heroin, Cocaine, Alcohol, Fentanyl, Methamphetamine
"Exposure to ________ is associated with drug addiction in humans and can induce relapse and craving."
What is Toxic Stress?
AA founded in this year by this person
What is 1935, and who Bill W and Dr. Bob?
In group the most important rule is?
What is confidentiality
Admitted to God to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
What is step 5
A way to benefit from group is to
What is participate?
A form of psychological manipulation and or emotional abuse where one person and/or group forces someone to doubt their own perception, memories, and sanity through gaining power and control over a victim in hopes of making them dependent upon them.
What is gaslighting?
When a slip occurs or you are struggling with continued use, you can reach out to
Who is your sponsor?
A way to show support for group members is to
affirm common experience, others' strengths, and hope
What stage of change when individuals sustain their changes for at least 6 months? As well as develop strategies to prevent relapse and integrate their new habits into their daily life?
Maintenance
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 examples of this useful tool in recovery
What is a coping skills
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?"
Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
What is step 10
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?
Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to addicts and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
What is step 12
This improves flexibility, strength, and balance while reducing stress, anxiety, and symptoms of depression
Yoga