Exam 8: Preventing and Treating Drug Use

The Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) approach of using public confession and commitment and mutual aid concepts can be found in a number of _____ century temperance organizations.

__________ is about good rapport and a positive working environment.

With the passage of the _______________ "drug testing also became a standard feature in the workplace as a way to measure worker productivity and to ensure public safety"

Behavior modification is a treatment approach based on learning theory.

Chemical detoxification for heroin reduces the addict's tolerance so that _____________.

Psychoanalysis is _________________.

Explain the strengths and weaknesses of the methadone program.

Contemporary treatment programs typically begin with detoxification.

The majority of major U.S. companies administer pre-employment drug tests.

The __________ model of drug prevention programming sees young people as easy prey to peer pressure.

A prominent feature of the therapeutic community has been the stiff __________.

Chemical dependency units are normally short-term, lasting only ________ days.

Attempting to directly persuade a client to change will be ________ because it entails taking one side of the conflict that the client is already experiencing.

AA offers a(n) ______________ explanation for alcohol addiction, and the AA conceptual model is that alcoholism is a disease .

Opiates were once presented as a cure for ______________.

Drug prevention is usually _______________, focusing on drug-related risks in isolation from an understanding of youth culture or the individual lives of young people .

Discuss the three dominant models of school-based antidrug programs.

The most widely used agonist, methadone, a wholly synthetic narcotic, was developed in _________ when access to morphine was cut off during World War II.

The AA approach has been criticized because of its emphasis on total abstinence and its lack of research support.

J. Cohen suggests that drug education often is __________ because it is not based on the educational principles that underlie the teaching of other subjects, and it tends to skew and censor information.