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What is the average age children start experimenting with drugs?
13 years old
What is a primary emotion that most addicts feel prior to picking up drugs and alcohol for the first time?
fear
What is when you detach, segregate and disconnect from others?
isolation
I AM POWERLESS OVER MY ADDICTION AND MY LIFE HAS BECOME UNMANAGEABLE.
What is "I am powerless over my addiction and my life has become unmanageble"
What is the 1st Step?
Guilt is feeling bad about what you've done. ______ is feeling bad about who you are.
What is Shame?
What is the most commonly abused substance and the 3rd most common cause of death in the US?
Alcohol
What spiritual principle is necessary when surrendering a higher power?
Faith
What is one common cause of relapse? (Starts with r, is something when you feel like you've been wronged)
Resentment
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What is STEP 9?
This was begun in Akron, Ohio, in 1935, with a chance meeting between two alcoholics, one a doctor and one a broker.
What is AA?
What drug causes slowed breathing and heart rate, increased risk of overdose and respiratory failure, constipation, and a weakened immune system?
Opioids
In active addiction addicts often lose this?
Friends
What are premeditated resentments? (starts with e)
expectations
Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends upon A.A. unity.
What is TRADITION 1 of AA?
The twelfth tradition asks members to place this before personalities.
What are PRINCIPLES?
What drug causes elevated heart rate and blood pressure, increased body temperature, irregular heartbeat, loss of appetite, and weight loss?
Stimulants
Happy, Joyous, and _______
Free
Getting into a sexual or romantic relationship before an addict is prepared to handle that relationship (or its demise) may lead to ....
relapse
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
What is STEP 7?
Meetings are self-supporting through this.
What is OUR OWN CONTRIBUTIONS?
Who was the primary author of the big bool of alcoholics anonymous? (for x2 who wrote 2 of the chapters)
Bill Wilson; Henry Parkhurst
We must do this for ourselves before we can do this for others?
Forgive
When you are pleased with yourself, resting on your laurels and lacking motivation in your recovery you are.....
Complacent
Each group has but one primary purpose -- to carry its message to the alcoholic who still suffers.
What is TRADITION 5 of AA?
This is the process by which the addicted brain invents excuses that allow the person in recovery to edge close enough to relapse situations that accidents can happen.
What is Justification?