Recovery Terms
Name That Drug
Health Risks
Thinking Traps
Celebrities
100

Skills in which someone can use in a stressful situation or to manage difficult emotions.

Coping Skills

100

Volatile solvents, Aerosols, Gases, Nitrites make up this category of drug?

Inhalants

100

Popcorn lung is most commonly associated with which tobacco/ nicotine product?

Vapes

100

What is the thought trap? The tendency to magnify the positive attributes of another, while minimizing your own

Magnification and Minimization

100

A Disney star and singer came close to dying during their July 2018 drug overdose that doctors later told them that they were saved by a matter of minutes. In 2021, they released a new documentary (Dancing with the Devil) detailing their relapse, overdose, and recommitment to recovery. 

Demi Lovato


200

People, places, things, emotions, or situations that can cause someone to feel as though they want to use.

Triggers

200

What drug class are Xanax, Ativan, Valium, and Klonopin in?

Benzodiazepines

200

This drug can rapidly increase your chances of heart attack

Stimulants, Tobacco

200

In mental filtering: The tendency to focus on the negative events and ignoring the _________

Positives

200

He began mixing pills, Vicodin, Valium, Ambien, and Xanax but the time came when he was taking as many as or more than 20 pills a day. In recovery, he admitted that he took it to an extreme, running 17 miles a day on his treadmill, using medication assisted treatment (MAT), meditation, and gentle exercise. He has 12 years of recovery and starts in 8-mile. 

Eminem


300

Falling back into old patterns, including returning to substance use after a period of sobriety.

Relapse

300

This drug is often labeled as "not for human consumption" and is known as "synthetic or fake weed."

Spice

300

Which drug is most commonly associated with cirrhosis of the liver?

Alcohol

300

The tendency to make irrational assumptions about people and circumstances is, jumping to_______

Conclusions

300

His battle with substance abuse made headlines throughout the late ‘90s and early 2000s, as the actor continued to relapse despite mounting personal and legal problems. Now in recovery for more than 15 years stars in Marvel’s Iron Man.

Robert Downey Jr.

400

A technique for managing one’s own unwanted behaviors. Rather than giving in to an craving, a person learns to ride it out, like a surfer riding a wave.

Urge Surfing

400

This drug is a powerful synthetic opioid that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent

Fentanyl

400

HIV can be spread from one person to another who use this route of administration?

Needles

400

Catastrophizing, mental filtering, jumping to conclusions, black and white thinking, overgeneralization

400

This actor struggled with alcohol while filming the Harry Potter movies. The actor, who has been sober since 2010, said that he gave up drinking with the help of his friends.

Daniel Radcliffe



500

Name one of the Stages of Change

Precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and possibly relapse.

500

A tropical tree (Mitragyna speciose) native to Southeast Asia. The leaves can be chewed on, brewed, or made into a powder.

Kratom

500

A condition in a child that results from alcohol exposure during the mother's pregnancy causing brain damage and growth problems to the child.



Fetal Alcohol Syndrome



500

Give an example of Black and White/ All or Nothing Thinking 

Answers will Vary

500

The "Machete" actor, who became a heroin addict as a teenager, has been sober for 52 years. He was 24 years old in 1969 when he began attending AA meetings while serving time in San Quentin State Prison in California. He was busted trying to sell heroin to an undercover cop.


Danny Trejo