Exam 17: Preventing Substance Abuse

Canada's National Anti-Drug Strategy is a collaborative effort among all of the following EXCEPT which one?

Describe the unfolding changes since the first Canadian Drug and Substance Strategy was launched in 2007.

The Institute of Medicine has proposed a new classification of the continuum of care, which includes prevention, treatment, and maintenance. Describe the specifics that describe the Prevention efforts and how they are categorized according to the intended target population.

What were some of the concerns of early drug education?

The Institute of Medicine's proposed prevention efforts are categorized primarily according to the age groups of the targeted populations.

Which type of program typically emphasizes exploration of one's own needs and beliefs regarding drugs?

You are a school principal and you have been asked by an education committee to implement the most widely used resistance-oriented prevention program. Which one is it?

Which approach makes the assumption that what is lacking in drug-using adolescents is not factual information about drugs but, rather, the ability to make appropriate decisions based on that information?

The values clarification approach makes the assumption that what is lacking in drug-using adolescents is factual information about.

One of the top programs on SAMHSA's list of effective prevention programs is DARE.

Describe the outcome of two important, large-scale studies of the effects of DARE that were released in 1994.

A 1984 review of prevention studies concluded that values clarification approaches were clearly effective in actually preventing future drug use.

Martha told a judge the reason she broke into a car was to steal a laptop so she could sell it to support her drug habit. What type of intervention will the judge most likely use in response to substance misuse?

Martin, a high school social worker is leading a group discussion about alternatives to drinking with students who have already indicated that they drink alcohol. Which prevention category would this describe?

Project ALERT is one of the "programs that work" that the textbook describes.

What were the most important key elements that were shown to be effective based on Evans's 1976 smoking prevention paper which introduced a psychological inoculation approach based on the social influence model?

Drug prevention programs are a relatively new concept dating back to the late 1970s.

What should be avoided when planning or offering drug/alcohol Prevention Programs for youth?

Describe the social realities of the 1960s and the educational strategies of the day, which eventually lead to the implementation of The Knowledge-Attitudes-Behaviour Model in the 1970s

The "Drug-Free Schools" approach has a big focus on drug laws and school policies, supporting the idea that illicit drug use is wrong and harmful.