Exam 9: Chronic Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Analogy: Male alcoholics are to steady drinking as female alcoholics are to __________.

Those with Type 2 alcoholism often have a novelty-seeking personality.

SMART Recovery is an organization founded,in part,by individuals who objected to references in Alcoholics Anonymous to a "power greater than ourselves."

A sensitivity to the mere mentioning of a possible drinking problem is referred to as __________.

The _____ is a structured interview instrument used to detect alcoholism.

Research on adopted children shows that biological children of alcoholics being raised by nonalcoholic adoptive parents __________.

There is no "safe level" of drinking alcohol during pregnancy.

A workplace-based program to help people with alcohol and other drug problems in an effort to enhance the welfare of the individual worker is known as______.

There is a correlation between a decline in overall intelligence and __________.

Which of the following examples brings with it the highest risk for becoming an alcoholic?

Alcoholics Anonymous is based upon the idea of __________.

An estimated million Americans reported that they have worked under the influence of alcohol in the past months.

Pregnant women who smoke and drink alcohol actually have a lowered risk of having FAS children compared to pregnant women who only drink alcohol.

Sara has been drinking alcohol for two months.She even drives her friends home on weekends when she has been drinking heavily.According to the DSM-IV-TR,Sara meets one of the criteria for __________.

When alcohol is viewed as a beverage for reducing anxiety,then alcohol consumption is considered symptomatic drinking.

The adverse consequence of alcohol consumed during pregnancy is due to __________.

Recent studies have shown the usefulness of _______,an antiepileptic and migraine-alleviating medication,for treating alcohol dependence.

The encouragement of controlled levels of drinking rather than total abstinence is a position of which alcoholism treatment program?

Delirium tremens symptoms (DTs)include frightening hallucinations.

TWEAK is a questionnaire that directly asks drinkers about their drinking problems.