This person will help you navigate membership, answer questions, work on the 12 steps, and offer accountability.

If a person uses a substance following a period of sobriety, this is considered a....  

 Achievements made throughout recovery that help to measure progress toward a long term goal. You may reach many of these throughout your recovery journey and lifetime. 

This is something that just about everyone needs when overcoming a difficult challenge, because it is so difficult to do it alone.

When a person struggles to manage these emotions, they may experience outbursts, loss of control, and erratic behavior. Hint: this is not a primary emotion...

Using this substance can lower your inhibitions, cause high blood pressure, liver disease, and cause long term and short term memory problems.

These are a set of principles developed to help individuals struggling with addiction change their beliefs. Together, they act as a framework for sustainable recovery.

This helps a person in recovery stay on track by letting them know if they are drifting toward relapse. They are activities that help a person in recovery remain sober.  

This can cause a delay in achieving a goal, or slow progress toward a goal. 

In some relationships there may be constant negative conflict, abuse, or neglect and it may not be healthy for either person involved. This type of relationship could be considered this:

A person who experiences this may feel nervous, scared, or paranoid and could begin to have trouble breathing, fast heartbeat, and/or racing thoughts. 

Using this substance can lead to increased activity in the brain. The person using this substance may experience a false sense of well-being and energy, and may push their body faster and further than it is meant to go often times on very little sleep. This can cause multiple health issues including extreme weight loss, damaged blood vessels in the brain, increased heart rate and blood pressure, liver, kidney, and lung damage.  

In these meetings, attention is brought to motivation, urges, problem-solving and lifestyle balance in addiction recovery. They focus on self-management. 

These are the things you can use to manage thoughts of using, triggers, and cravings and can involve stopping the thought, distracting your mind, using relaxation techniques, or participating in recovery related activities, etc. It is important to develop these in addiction recovery to strengthen your sobriety. 

You may want to achieve different things in your recovery. This is the action of identifying things you want to achieve, and making a plan on how you will get there.  

This is an interactive relationship with a patient that is caring, clear, has boundaries, is positive, and professional. This type of relationship can be very beneficial for a patient's progress in treatment. 

Sometimes when a person has been using stimulants and has been deprived of sleep they may experience these symptoms. Others may experience these symptoms even though they are sober. 

Using this substance can disrupt how the brain's dopamine system works, reducing a person's ability to feel pleasure from normal, everyday activities. When stopping this substance you can experience psychological withdrawal symptoms such as depression and lack of energy.  

This support group was created for the spouses, family members, and close friends of the addicted individual. 

It is important to take care of your self in recovery. If you find yourself feeling any of these 4 things, you could be more vulnerable to triggers, cravings, and relapse. 

These are not always reached in order, and you can skip some or be in more than one of these at one time. What are these? pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and relapse/recycling.

In this step of the 12 steps, you may begin to make right  wrong-doings to another person when able to. 

It is essential to learn to eliminate this negative emotion which stems from holding on to anger and grudges

This substance can affect decision making, concentration, and memory for days after use, especially in people who use regularly. Some of these side effects can last for longer periods of time, especially with chronic, long term use. 

AA was founded by these person(s) in what year?

Triggers can come from within yourself in the form of emotion, dreams, etc. They can also come from the people/places/things around you. These two types of triggers are called what?  

If you find this, it can help you define your goals, and add meaning and direction to your life. 

 This is a learned behavior that can be passed down from one generation to another. It is an emotional and behavioral condition that affects an individual's ability to have a healthy, mutually satisfying relationship.

 Sometimes addiction can be directly related to deeply disturbing or distressing experiences that occurred earlier in life. These experiences are referred to as: 

This potent substance can affect your physical health in detrimental ways. Some of the ways that this substance can affect your health is damage to the GI due to chronic constipation and lack of adequate nutrition, respiratory problems such as slowed breathing and a lack of adequate oxygen to the brain, cardiac arrest, stroke, heart failure, heart disease, endocronitis, blood infections, loss of fertility, infectious disease such as HIV and HEP-C, and ultimately overdose related death. There are multiple other ways that this substance can affect your physical health.