Exam 8: Preventing and Treating Drug Use

In ________________ treatment patients are usually first relaxed, then given repeated exposure to a graded hierarchy of anxiety-producing stimuli (real or imaginal) to provide a form of immunity.

Drug courts include an adversarial approach to integrating substance abuse treatment with criminal justice case processing.

Youngsters who have the greatest knowledge about drugs are the least likely to use drugs.

Behavior modification is a treatment approach based on _____________.

The _________ Model of substance abuse treatment consists of residential treatment followed by living in a halfway house with "recovery employment" in a low-wage job.

About _____ percent of major U.S. companies administer pre-employment drug tests.

The first medication approved by the FDA for dealing with alcohol dependence is __________.

The process of withdrawal from heroin addiction through the use of diminishing doses of methadone takes approximately __________________.

Discuss how behavior modification is being used to treat drug addiction.

Which drug use prevention model assumes that young people who have high self-esteem will not use drugs?

Discuss protective factors and risk factors associated with the potential for drug use.

_____________________therapy involves the conscious and disciplined use of specific communication principles and strategies to evoke the person's own motivations for change.

Reducing the demand for drugs of abuse has been the goal of coercive legislation and education.

Methadone is _________________.

Which drug use prevention model assumes that students will develop negative attitudes that will deter them from using drugs?

Cocaine was offered as a cure for ________________.

Psychoanalytically oriented treatment is sometimes referred to as dynamic or clinical.

Which drug use prevention model assumes that young people lack the skills to make rational choices and that if they had these skills, they would not use drugs?

More than ________ AA groups are registered in the United States.

_________________ therapy strives to have drug abusers understand their cravings and to develop coping skills.