Exam 16: Substance Abuse Prevention

The costs related to illegal drug use in Canada account for ________ of the total estimated social costs of substance abuse in Canada.

Which of the following is NOT a category associated with the cost of substance abuse in Canada?

Abusers of alcohol and other drugs in the workplace use, on average, several times more sick leave from work than nonabusers.

In Canada, ________ is ranked first and ________ is ranked second for number of deaths caused, years of life lost, and hospital visits.

Evaluating the success or failure of a substance-abuse primary prevention program is more complicated than people think. Contrast how the public typically evaluates the success of a program with "evidence-based" evaluation.

Values clarification approaches have sought to give youngsters a moral "compass" to guide their behaviour.

A program that reduces the likelihood of relapse among former heroin abusers would fit under the category of __________.

Almost all drug-abuse prevention programs have an alternative-behaviour programming component in them.

An emphasis of the LST drug-abuse prevention program is the examination of __________.

Which of the following drug test results can have unfortunate consequences in the workplace?

The LST program is most effective for ________.

Mandatory minimum-sentencing laws have resulted in __________.

Given prior experiences of university students, the focus of substance-abuse programs at this level should be __________.

Students learning ways to lessen anxiety and practise relaxation techniques would be undergoing a _____ component of the LST program.

The community-based approach, which operates by substituting a negative and harmful dependence with a positive and harmless dependence, is known as __________.

Strict punitive measures have failed as a means for primary and secondary prevention.

Resilience is the inclination to resist the effects of protective factors through the action of risk factors.

The D.A.R.E. program has been criticized for advocating that children be questioned about possible drug offenders in their families, and some view the program as a mechanism for turning young children into informants.

Recent data has indicated that a 25-cent-per-drink tax increase would result in ________.

The approaches that have the greatest chance of success are those that address a single area of drug-taking behaviour since too much at once is overwhelming.