Exam 12: Substance-Related Disorders

Many celebrities who have died of drug overdoses recently seem to have consumed several substances.

According to a cross-cultural study on the annual consumption of alcoholic beverages, which country had the highest consumption rates?

Naltrexone is effective for treating alcoholism by:

Alan Marlatt's intervention for heavy drinking

Mark is experiencing the following symptoms after taking a drug: he feels an initial rush of ecstasy, has great self-confidence and has lost all his worries and fears. At the same time, he is feeling drowsy and relaxed. Which of the following drugs is Mark most likely to have taken recently?

Penny is a graduate student studying brain abnormalities associated with alcoholism. She most likely ascribes to:

Skyler is entering treatment for heroin addiction. She is given methadone at the treatment facility in order to:

Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome often also have problems with:

Marijuana smoking

At a party, both Lisa and Sara decide to try LSD for the first time. Lisa is pretty excited about it - she's wanted to experience a trip for a while. Sara is quite apprehensive, but doesn't want to let her friends know that she isn't sure. What will they likely experience?

Studies of addiction to marijuana have indicated that use of the drug can

Jose has been told that alcohol makes people aggressive and slows their reflexes. At a party, he drinks a great deal of punch that he believes to contain alcohol; in fact, the punch was non-alcoholic. Late in the evening, a stranger tries to pick a fight with Jose. Which of the following outcomes is most likely?

Flashbacks following LSD use are caused by

Further analyses of the 2004 Canadian Addiction Survey by Stockwell et al. (2009)revealed that ____% of the heaviest alcohol drinkers consumed ____% of the overall alcohol consumption.

When patients with particular symptoms respond better for different treatments than patients with the same symptoms but different characteristics, this is referred to as

Wally is less likely to get the pleasure and stimulation out of drinking when he is at home than when he has a couple of drinks at the bar. This could be because

According to the Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey 2011, the prevalence rate of Canadian smokers is:

Pregnant women have been encouraged by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to

The "drug-Stroop effect" can be described as:

While more men drink than women, the rates for hazardous drinking are equal across genders.