Exam 2: Drug Use As a Social Problem

Which of the following has consistently been near the top of emergency room visits and drug-related deaths lists for many years?

Which of these substances is listed as having a "very high" dependence potential?

Our best estimate is that tobacco cigarettes were associated with over 37,000 deaths in Canada in 2002.

No genetic, physiological, or biochemical marker has been found that definitively predicts drug dependence.

All of the following have universally determined the development of drug laws EXCEPT which one?

The DSM-5 does not define addiction as such, but has diagnostic criteria for

Needle exchange programs began in Canada in 1989; however the programs were found to have little impact on the rate of HIV infection among intravenous drug users and were too expensive an initiative to continue.