Exam 3: Alcohol and Other Drugs: Use, Abuse, and Dependence

Major differences between alcoholism under DSM III and the alcohol dependence syndrome (ADS) include:

Physical measures of drug use are limited as:

Most epidemiological studies focus on the total ________ of drinking over a period of time:

Unlike licit drugs, use of illicit drugs is harder to determine because:

The disease conception of alcoholism:

Cigarette use patterns differ from the typical alcohol use pattern in that:

A quantity frequency measure combines two aspects of alcohol use to:

Sensitive measures of drug use:

Drug dependence is:

Use, abuse, and dependence are:

The distinction between drug use and abuse is:

Which of the following statements is true:

The condition, which involves a compelling physiological or psychological need to use alcohol or drugs, is referred to as _____________.

Drug use-related problems include all but:

Use of official statistics and records as indirect measures of drug use:

Patterns of drinking can vary with:

It is easier to measure use levels for licit than for illicit drugs because:

The DSM III criteria developed by the American Psychiatric Association:

A common aggregated measure of drinking combines a _____________ measure of consumption, and one of ___________ of consumption.

Jellinek's disease model viewed alcoholism as all but: