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A substance invented by the Bayer Company in Germany in the late 1800's and thought to be a cure for morphine addiction.
What is heroin. **The scientists who invented it and used it said it made them feel heroic, thus, the name heroin**
Published in 1939, this is the common name for the text from which our fellowship gets its name.
What is the Big Book?
This recovery network was established in the 1940's in California. It asserts it's therapeutic value for aiding people in recovery is that the program is based on people helping people.
What is Narcotics Anonymous?
This too _________ ___________
What is shall pass
For the best chance of staying sober, what is the MINIMUM length of time a person should stay in treatment?
What is 90 days?
A mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression).
What is Bipoalr disorder
Purely from the point of total cost and harm to the community, which is usually considered by experts to be the most 'dangerous' drug? This is probably due to its widespread use in most places.
What is alcohol.
The founders of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Who are Bill W. and Dr. Bob?
After just one use this drug can be seen in the brain and in toxicology screens for 3-6 weeks.
What is marijuana?
Live and ____________
What is Let live?
To politely, yet firmly stand up for yourself when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this.
What is assertiveness?
Disorder cause an abrupt surge of intense fear or intense discomfort that reaches a peak within minutes?
What are Panic Disorders.
Addiction can change the structure of your brain
True or false
True
- Well-supported scientific evidence shows that disruptions in three areas of the brain are particularly important in the onset, development, and maintenance of substance use disorders: the basal ganglia, the extended amygdala, and the prefrontal cortex.
When you continue to take personal inventory, and when you are wrong, you promptly admit it.
What is Step Ten?
This substance is the most common cause of death in the United States every year
What is alcohol
Pain is inevitable, ____________ is optional
What is misery?
Information or an emergency kit to help an individual from using again. This kit could include 12 step information, important phone numbers, healthy recreational activities to participate in.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
The two most common Mood disorders
Around 80% of ingested alcohol is absorbed through this part of the body.
What is small intestine?
Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in this year.
What is 1935?
________________ is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
What is dopamine?
Your __________ should never depend on another person's opinion
What is worth?
Acronym of WRAP
What is Wellness Recovery Action Plan
What are 3 symptoms you must have in order to be diagnosed with Schizophrenia?
What are Delusions, Hallucinations, and Disorganized Speech.
This term actually means to induce sleep, but the public often interprets it, wrongly, to mean any legal drug sometimes used illegally.
What is narcotic.
"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
Lying to yourself or others to avoid facing the painful truth.
What is denial?
One is too many and ____________________________
What is a thousand is never enough?
In order to remove the obsession of drugs/alcohol AA recommends you do this
Pray to let God remove the obsession.
Adults with this mental illness have a 64% greater risk of developing coronary heart disease.
What is major depressive disorder (MDD)
Only ___ out of 10 people who need treatment for substance abuse issues will receive treatment.
what is 1 out of 10
What 2 steps are considered the most difficult step?
Double points if you can define this step
The 4th and 5th step
“made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves”
"admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
The three most commonly abused prescription drugs
what are Pain Killers, tranquillizers, and stimulants
HALT stands for _________________
What is Hungry, angry, lonely, tired?
Our brain learns by _________ and _________.
What is repetition and reward?
members of this community are almost 3 times more likely to experience a mental health condition such as major depression or generalized anxiety disorder
What is LGBTQ
A primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry.
What is addiction?
The three sides of the Triangle – AA’s three legacies.
What are Unity, Service and Recovery?
This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.
What is Tobacco? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
principles before _______
What is personalities
Tools that people use to handle the changes that happen in life, these can be positive or negative.
What are coping skills?
This illness causes people to suffer from persistent deficits in social communication and interaction?
What is Autism