Exam 15: Substance Abuse Treatment

To help individuals overcome their dependency on opiates, Freud experimented on his patients with ________.

Evaluation of outpatient programs demonstrates that they are highly effective.

What is the role of the medical model in helping people to stay clean and sober? Do you think detox and rehabilitation have been medicalized too much? Why or why not?

People in treatment are more likely to be employed.

Most people in drug treatment are

A medically-supervised program designed to gradually withdraw addicts from the drug on which they are physically dependent is termed

Drug-free residential settings where drug abusers reside for a year or two are called

Disulfiram interferes with the metabolism of alcohol and increases the level of ______in the blood.

Research shows that a major benefit of drug courts is that

To be drug-dependent does not necessarily mean that a person uses drugs every day.

Acamprosate is a drug primarily used to treat

Criticisms of AA include which of the following?

Discuss the major underlying causes contributing to drug abuse.

Twice as many men have alcohol problems as women, but women are four times more likely to get treatment.

Members of self-help groups are bound by a common denominator.

It is less costly to prevent drug abuse than to treat drug abuse.

The 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous focus mainly on which dimension of health?

Do you support a controlled drinking model or the complete abstinence model for alcoholic abusers who want to stay clean and sober? Defend your answer.

In general, people are in favor of providing treatment for drug abusers but do not want drug treatment centers located in their neighborhoods.

Naltrexone may be most helpful after