Addiction & Recovery

4. To change, admit to wrong doing, take responsibility, develop a healthy honest life style
6. Repeated behavior that interferes with normal, healthy life activities
8. Serious thought or consideration
10. The inability to recognize the presence of severity of an addiction or behavior
11. Free of deceit or untruthfulness
12. To acknowledge without reservation that one has an addiction and needs help
14. Healing the mind, body, and the spirit after addiction
16. Continuation in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success
17. The quality or state of being prepared to do something
18. Helping an addicted person to do things they can or should be doing for themselves

1. When a person stops using drugs or alcohol rapidly and suffers a negative physical response
2. The expectation that things in the future will be better
3. The quality of being modest, grounded and free from arrogance
5. The state or quality of being dedicated to a cause or activity
6. To refrain from the use of drugs and alcohol
7. Issues, emotions, places or people associated with drug use and drinking
9. The ability to be thankful for the gifts one has in their life
13. A desire to use drugs or alcohol
14. The act of using drugs or alcohol after refraining from using
15. Skills Techniques and strategies that help manage, reduce, or tolerate stressful situations and difficult emotions