Exam 7: Substance Use and Abuse

Which personality trait is NOT positively associated with smoking among adolescents?

The treatment of alcohol use disorder is largely unsuccessful over the long term.

Approximately 20% of Americans report having used an illicit drug in the past month.

The biobehavioral model is primarily a physiological model of nicotine addiction.

A national study conducted following the release of the Real Cost campaign estimated that it led to a ______ decrease in smoking initiation by youths aged 11-18.

As they grow up, children's expectations regarding alcohol's effects become increasingly negative.

In states that legalized the recreational use of marijuana, the perception of the drug's harm ______, and its use ______.

Khya is picking up her 90-day chip at a local Narcotics Anonymous meeting. Being clean for 3 months is a real achievement, because about ______ of all relapses happen within 90 days of quitting a substance.

______ evidence suggests that light-to-moderate drinking is linked to ______ health than is abstaining.

With respect to models of nicotine addiction, physiological is to behavioral as the ______ is to the ______ model.

City-wide smoking bans ______.

Most people who have successfully quit smoking have made about 10 unsuccessful attempts to quit in the past.

Cocaine is to ______ as ______ is to depressant.

Doctors who prescribe pain medication often have to prescribe larger doses of the drug to a patient over time because of ______.

As compared to the cold turkey approach to smoking cessation, nicotine fading is ______ effective.

At this point, the results of research aimed at identifying the personality traits associated with alcohol-related problems are BEST described as ______.

Project DARE is an example of a primary prevention strategy for preventing substance abuse.

Which statement is MOST accurate with respect to the empirical evaluation of self-help programs such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)?

Consider the models of nicotine addiction presented in the textbook. Which statement BEST expresses the relationship between the nicotine regulation model and the nicotine fixed-effects model?

"Consuming more than four drinks in one day for women, or five drinks in one day for men" is a(n) ______ definition of ______ drinking.