12 Step
This person is a guide, a mentor, and a fellow recovering addict, who volunteers their time to help a newcomer in the 12-step program.
What is a Sponsor?
A wide range of conditions that affect mood, thinking, and behavior.
Mental Disorder
___ is the compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance, despite negative consequences.
Addiction?
You can practice healthy ___ ___ to overcome cravings and triggers.
What are Coping Skills?
___ is defined as doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
What is Insanity?
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol --- that our lives had become unmanageable.
What is Step 1?
___: a stimulus - such as a person, place, situation, or thing - that contributes to an unwanted emotional or behavioral response.
What is a Trigger?
___ is a synthetic opioid that is up to 100 times stronger than other opioids like morphine or heroin.
What is Fentanyl?
___ are the limits and rules we set for ourselves within relationships.
What are Boundaries?
___ is the most widely used psychoactive substance in the world.
What is Caffeine?
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is Step 4?
___ ___ are irrational thoughts that can influence your emotions. Everyone experiences these to some degree, but in their more extreme forms they can be harmful.
Overdoses caused by these are more common than heroin and cocaine combined.
What are prescription pain killers/ opioids?
a return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength.
What is Recovery?
Drugs create a neurochemical reaction that significantly increases the amount of ___ that is released by neurons in the brain's reward center. It is also known as the "feel-good" hormone.
What is Dopamine?
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
What is Step 7?
moment-to-moment awareness of one's experience without judgement. It can be promoted by certain practices or activities, such as meditation.
What is Mindfulness?
This drug can be made in small batches, with hazardous household and farm chemicals.
What is Methamphetamine?
___ can give direction to your life, highlight your most important values, and give a sense of purpose.
What are Goals?
The 2 organs most affected by vaping.
Lungs and heart.
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
What is Step 10?
___-___ includes everything related to staying physically, mentally, and spiritually healthy. It's all the steps an individual can take to manage stressors in his or her life and take care of his or her own health and well-being.
What is Self-Care?
This drug causes side effects such as high blood pressure, heart disease, liver disease, and digestive problems. Cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, liver, and colon. Weakening of the immune system. Learning and memory problems, including dementia and poor school/ work performance.
What is Alcohol?
___ is a process where someone who has been wronged chooses to let go of their resentment, and treat the wrongdoer with compassion.
What is Forgiveness?
Addiction, substance use and abuse, are responsible for more than __% of deaths in the U.S?
20%