Exam 10: Preventing Substance Abuse

As a consequence of a prevention program, understanding of the risks associated with driving under the influence increased, which resulted in increased utilization of designated drivers and a reduction in the adolescent mortality rate related to drunken driving. What effects has the program achieved?

Which of the following is true of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) project initiated in public schools?

In the context of economic control over substance abuse, how do price increases (e.g., through taxation) of the substances affect their abuse rates?

In the context of substance abuse prevention, prevention is often opposed, overtly or covertly, because it is perceived as diverting funds from needed treatment resources.

Research based on alcohol advertising has found little relationship between substance use and either bans on such advertising or expenditures to promote sales.

Discuss the emergence of counterprevention in the midst of the diversity of prevention models to combat substance abuse.

What happens if actions taken during the fragmentation stage are only partially successful?

According to Bourne, community responses to substance abuse could be viewed as evolving through four stages; they are _.

Which of the following is true in the context of the evaluation of prevention programs?

The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) generally subscribes to a public health model for prevention, whose three interacting components are agent, host, and environment.

Why are many prevention programs based on abstinence rather than use reduction or harm reduction?

Substance abuse prevention often overlaps with an array of other social and personal problems (such as mental health, education, law enforcement, and health care). Currently, we see that these overlaps result in .

Peer-oriented programs have delayed effects, while prevention programs targeting parents have more immediate effects on the use and abuse of substances.

Compare prevention programs with those that are treatment-oriented.

In the context of substance abuse prevention, the bulk of pharmacological, etiological, and epidemiological research provides a firm basis for the logic of abstinence.

Rather than encouraging a particular model for prevention, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2011) supports a Strategic Prevention Framework consisting of some specific components, namely, ______.

Follow-up research indicated that participants in drug courts have .