DUI Court Questions (Random Draw Questions)
These questions are individually written on index cards and then participants draw a card as they
approach the podium. Participants read their question and then answer. It is important that
treatment team members have knowledge of the twelve steps utilized in many support group
meetings.
1. What is your plan to allow time for reflection each day?
2. What impact has the DUI Court Program had on your life?
3. Describe what makes a relationship compatible with recovery.
4. How have you thought or obsessed about your addictive behavior? Identify a specific
instance during your recovery.
5. How do you use your sponsor?
6. Who inspires you?
7. Are you able to quickly forgive others and yourself? Provide an example.
8. What are five things you have faith in?
9. Do you handle negative situations differently in your life since entering into the program?
10. What in your life are you most grateful for?
11. What step has been most difficult for you and why?
12. If you could write a letter to yourself, at age 16, what would it say?
13. How often do you communicate with/utilize your sponsor and what is the biggest benefit
that you have encountered by having a sponsor? If you do not have a sponsor, what is
your plan for obtaining one and how do you foresee that sponsor assisting with your
sobriety?
14. What would be your “theme song?”
15. Describe what makes a relationship threatening to recovery.
16. What is included in your relapse prevention plan?
17. What do you value most in a friendship? Has that changed over the course of your
sobriety?
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18. How would you answer the question "Who am I"?
19. What are your triggers for addictive behavior? How can you guard against them or
prepare for them?
20. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?
21. Where do you feel most supported and helped in your path to recovery?
22. Would you add or remove any steps to the twelve step program and why?
23. Please cite a specific example of how substance abuse damaged a relationship important
to you. Discuss the measures taken to repair the damage since your recovery has started.
24. Please discuss the tools that you use to cope with the desire to use.
25. What is your biggest obstacle to maintaining sobriety and how do you deal with it?
26. If you had a warning label, what would it say?
27. Identify the top three ways you have benefitted most from your sobriety?
28. If all goes well, what will your life be like in 5 years?
29. If you could design your own twelve step meeting location, what are some aspects you
would include?
30. Free pass. No question.
31. What was the biggest barrier to you seeking treatment prior to DUI Court?
32. What would your dream job or career be?
33. Are there any negative consequences/situations remaining in your life that resulted from
your addiction that you are struggling/failing to address? If so, what is your plan to
address it/them?
34. What motivates you to maintain your sobriety?
35. How have you hidden your addiction in the past?
36. If there was a book about your life, what would the title be?
37. How do you respond to people that offer you alcohol and/or drugs?
38. What interferes with you achieving your goals?
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DUI Court Questions (Given At the Start of Court)
These questions are individually written on index cards and given to participants prior to the start
of court. Given the nature of the question, participants then have more time to prepare their
answers. As participants are called to the podium, they read their question and then answer. It is
important that treatment team members have knowledge of the twelve steps utilized in many
support group meetings.
1. Describe an example of denial in your active addiction. (Ie, thoughts of “I’m not
addicted, I can stop when I want”.)
2. How many times did you attempt to stop using on your own? What was the result of this?
3. Identify and describe your three biggest expectations related to recovery.
4. What was the biggest barrier to your sobriety prior to entering DUI Court?
5. Describe a way in which you have minimized your use? (Ie, “I only had 2 beers today”,
when in reality a 6-pack was consumed.)
6. Described an example of how you rationalized an incident that happened during your
active addiction. (Ie, “I’m under a lot of stress and needed to take some extra pills.”)
7. What does step 12 mean to you?
8. Describe what makes a relationship compatible with recovery?
9. Describe a time when you have thought about or engaged in substituting one addiction
for another using a substance. (Ie, quitting alcohol and taking pain pills…because its ok,
“they’re prescribed by a doctor”.)
10. Describe a time when you have thought about or engaged in substituting one addiction
for another using an activity. (Ie, quitting smoking and thrill seeking.)
11. What was the toughest part of step 5 for you?
12. Identify one or two resentments that you are holding on to currently. (Ie, ill will or
negative feelings toward someone or something in the past experienced as wrong or
unjust.)
13. Identify and describe your two greatest fears related to your addiction and be specific.
14. Describe a time when you were wrong and promptly admitted it.
15. Describe what step seven means to you.
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16. What is your biggest obstacle to maintaining sobriety?
17. Identify and describe your two greatest fears related to recovery.
18. Describe any feelings of guilt you have experienced that were a result of your addiction.
19. How did you isolate yourself during your addiction? If you feel as though you didn’t
isolate yourself, explain why.
20. What motivated you to seek recovery?
21. How do you practice step 10?
22. Describe how getting clean and being in recovery may be stressful for you.
23. Identify the places connected to your active addiction that you needed to part ways with
for the sake of your recovery.
24. Explain a time when a friend or family member enabled you in your addiction.
25. Explain what being powerless over your addiction means to you.
26. Describe what makes a relationship threatening to recovery.
27. How have your priorities and values changed as a result of your sobriety?
28. Explain what hope, faith, and trust mean to you and how you apply them to your life.
29. Give an example of how your life had been made unmanageable as a result of focusing
on your addiction.
30. What beliefs tend to keep you stuck in situations that are unhealthy for you?
31. Describe what courage means to you.
32. Describe a time where you expressed inappropriate anger towards other people. In
looking back, would you have handled the situation differently and how so?
33. How much time and energy have you lost from your addictive behaviors? What do you
think you have done or become had it not been for your addictive behaviors?
34. What amends do you have the most difficulty making? What do you need to do to be able
to make these amends?
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