Exam 17: Substance Abuse Treatment: Strategies for Change

_______ is an integrated approach to drug treatment, which recognizes that psychological, social, and biological factors each play a role in drug abuse.

Seriously considering taking action in the next 30 days is a sign of being in the _______stage of change.

Parents who are enablers and want to "disenable" should __________.

Roughly 30% of all abusers of alcohol or other drugs have had a serious mental disorder in their lifetime.

Janet wants her son to stop using heroin. She says that if he does not stop, she will be forced to physically injure herself. Which enabling behaviour applies to Janet?

The R.I.D.E. program would be an example of which general strategy of drug prevention?

What are some of the questions that should be asked about a treatment facility for alcohol or other drug abuse?

Which of the following is NOT an enabling behaviour?

Obstacles that those entering drug treatment face include __________.

An example of a strategy for treatment that cuts across different forms of drug abuse is __________.

Define "drug trafficking." Summarize five factors that are considered with regard to penalties imposed for drug trafficking.

Describe the five stages of change related to drug-abuse rehabilitation and give a concrete example (in the form of an individual's attitude or reaction) for each one.

Feelings of denial help family members of a drug abuser avoid humiliation and shame.

Inpatient treatment should be considered __________.

A dual-diagnosis patient is someone who abuses two drugs at the same time.

In Canada, the average age of first substance use is __________.

Optimally, pharmacological drug-abuse treatment should be combined with __________.

__________ is defined as having on one's person any illegal or nonprescribed controlled substance for one's own use.

When denial, anger, and bargaining have failed and feelings have become too disruptive, it is time for __________.

"Maintaining" the maintenance stage might require __________.