Exam 16: Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems

Which primary prevention methods for licit and illicit drugs include education and persuasion attempts to reduce the attractiveness of drugs among potential users?

Bias against lower social classes is reflected by:

Proponents of more liberal drug policies in the U.S.:

Social drug policies and laws stem from views that:

What constitutes a zero-tolerance position on drugs?

Harm reduction goals aimed at total consumption reduction might be most effective by:

Research evidence often fails to affect social policy because:

Aggregate measures of consumption such as per capita consumption that reflect the overall amount of use in society:

Many school-based alcohol and other drug prevention programs involve:

All but which prevention effort is focused on the host:

Drug testing is one objective approach at identifying drugs at work that:

Harm reduction advocates seek to assist people in the direction of ____________ behavior change, whether that change involves abstinence, moderate drinking, or the reduction of alcohol use.

The Commission on Medical Marijuana (Institute on Medicine, 1998)

Secondary prevention for drivers apprehended for driving under the influence (DUI) involves:

All but which has been found by research assessing the effects of mass media:

Primary prevention involves:

All but which is true about recent views on cigarettes:

The public health model considers interactions of ________, __________, and ___________.

All but which is true of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) project started in 1983:

Harm reduction approaches, started in the 1980s in the Netherlands and England: