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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 skill?
This is the intoxicating ingredient in Alcoholic Drinks
What is Ethyl Alcohol
Withdrawal from this drug can cause restless behavior, depressed mood, fatigue, increased appetite, vivid and unpleasant dreams and slowing of daily activity.
What is cocaine
In what year did World War II end
1945
PAWS is an acronym for what
Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrom
nearly 85,000 people die from this legal drug, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in our country.
What is alcohol? (Source: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism).
This drug slows both heart rate and respiration, which can be fatal when mixed with alcohol.
What are Sedatives, Hypnotics, and Anxiolytics as well as opiates? (Heroin, oxycontin, percocet, morphine, Xanax, Librium, Valium, Benadryl, Ambien) (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Withdrawal from this substance can cause agitation, fever, hallucinations, seizures, and severe confusion.
What is Alcohol?
A run-away slave who became a leader of the abolitionist movement and special advisor to Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Frederick Douglass.
A Scientist at the Bayer Company invented this substance and Aspirin in the 1800's in Germany.
What is Heroin
This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States.
What is Tobacco? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
When combined with alcohol, these drugs may cause impulsive violent behavior, but more research is needed.
What are Anabolic Steroids? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headache, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, depressed mood, and difficulty concentrating.
What is caffeine?
When sailers were captured and forced to servie in a foreign navy it is called:
What is Impressment.
What is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker
That someday, somehow he will be able to Control and Enjoy his/her drinking.
This drug causes side effects such as malnutrition, cancer of the mouth, esophagus and stomach, and birth defects.
What is Alcohol.
When mixed with alcohol, this drug creates an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular effects, and may result in dangerously low blood pressure.
What is an inhalant? (Source: National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Withdrawal from this substance can cause headaches, nausea, constipation or diarrhea, falling heart rate and blood pressure, fatigue, drowsiness, insomnia, iritability, difficulty concentrating, and anxiety.
What is nicotine?
What are the three branches of government
Judicial
Executive
Legislative
Fill in the blanks Mentally, Physically & ____________`
Spirituallyl
This is the leading cause of death in the United States?
What is accidental overdose?
This class of drugs are natural and synthetic drugs that distort thinking, awareness and the senses.
What is Halluciogens.
This drug causes short lived intense high that is immediately followed by the opposite - depression, intense craving for more of the substance
What is cocaine
There are now more than 13,000 people in this population who are struggling with addiction
Who are newborn babies?
Marijuana can be life threatening to a person with any form of _____________
Heart Disease
Which American state is the largest by area
Alaska
There are _________ in the human body
What is 206