Who is an addict

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Across
  1. 2. We avoided the ________ of our addiction. Pg 5
  2. 5. We we’re forced to _____ anyway that we could. Pg 4
  3. 6. Like other ______ diseases, addiction can be arrested. Pg 5
  4. 7. Some of us used, misused, ______ drugs and still did not consider ourselves addicts. Pg 4
  5. 10. Very simply an ______ is a man or woman whose life is controlled by drugs. Pg 3
  6. 11. The ______ available to us came from misinformed people. Pg 3
  7. 14. We may have tried to moderate, ______, or even stop using…… pg 7
  8. 16. Some addicts needed to go to greater _______ than others. Pg 6
  9. 17. Addiction is a _______ that involves more than the use of drugs. Pg 3
  10. 19. Once we ______ ourselves as addicts, help becomes possible. Pg 8
  11. 20. Most of us do not have to think twice about this _______. Pg 3
  12. 22. Those of us who don’t die from the disease will go on to prison, mental institutions, or complete demoralization as the disease ________. Pg 7
  13. 24. Some of us first saw the ______ of addiction on those people closest to ya. Pg 7
  14. 27. We _______ what it was like before we started using; we forgot about social graces. Pg 6
  15. 28. Our _______ to drugs is what makes us addicts, not how much we use. Pg 5
  16. 29. We fell into a _______ of selective thinking. Pg 4
  17. 30. Through _______ and through working the twelve steps of Narcotics Anonymous our lives have become useful. Pg 8
  18. 32. We have a disease but we do _______. Pg 8
Down
  1. 1. We suspected that we had lost control over the drugs and had no _____ to stop. Pg 6
  2. 3. When we did seek help, we were only looking for the ____ of pain. Pg 5
  3. 4. As our addiction progressed many of us found ourselves in and out of ________. Pg 5
  4. 8. Some of us feel lonely because of _________ between us and other members. Pg 6
  5. 9. We had to reach our _____ before we were willing to stop. Pg 7
  6. 12. We begin to treat our ________ by not using. Pg 8
  7. 13. The only alternatives to recovery are jails, institutions, ______, and death. Pg 8
  8. 15. Our addictions ______ us. Pg 7
  9. 18. We did not _______ to become addicts. Pg 3
  10. 21. This seems ______, but many of us have been in this state of mind. Pg 5
  11. 23. The fact was that we could not use any mind altering mood changing _____ including marijuana and alcohol successfully. Pg 4
  12. 25. Our world shrank and ______ became our life. Pg 4
  13. 26. While _____ we lived in another world.
  14. 30. One _______ of our addiction was our inability to deal with life on life’s terms. Pg 4
  15. 31. The disease is _______, progressive, and fatal. Pg 7