Deck 6: Substance Abuse: A Harm Reduction Approach Elizabeth Eastlund and Eugenia L Weiss

Question 1

What are the two drug and alcohol models used in the United States today?

A) Experimental and medical
B) Self-help and sentencing
C) Rehabilitative and treatment
D) Moral and disease

Answer 1

Moral and disease

Question 2

Which model believes that a person's drug use will worsen over time and pays no attention to environmental factors?

A) Moral model
B) Rehabilitative model
C) Disease model
D) Sentencing model

Answer 2

Disease model

Question 3

What term explains the process by which an alcohol or drug user moves from experimentation to occasional use to regular use to heavy abuse to dependence and eventually to chaos?

A) Continuation of alcohol and drug use
B) Continuum of alcohol and drug use
C) Development of alcohol and drug use
D) Dependence of alcohol and drug use

Answer 3

Continuum of alcohol and drug use

Question 4

The term "chaos" is closely related to what other term used in drug and alcohol treatment?

A) Addiction
B) Sentencing
C) Harmful
D) Dependence

Question 5

What are the two philosophies common in drug and alchohol treatment?

A) Cognitive and behavioral
B) Medical and rehabilitation
C) Harm reduction and public health
D) Public health and sentencing

Question 6

What philosophy of drug and alcohol treatment is geared at reducing harms caused by drug use at the mezzo and macro level of the process?

A) Harm reduction
B) Public health
C) Sentencing
D) Medical

Question 7

What is the term used to describe two or more disorders?

A) Co-occuring disorder
B) Drug and alcohol disorder
C) Concurrent disorder
D) Bipolar disorder

Question 8

What three areas should be surveyed during a comprehensive assessment with a user seeking recovery?

A) Family substance use history, neighborhood, and computer literacy skills
B) Dietary habits, withdrawal symptoms, and drug use setting
C) Learning ability, drug use setting, and rationale for seeking treatment
D) Strengths, risks and harm, and family substance use history

Question 9

What is the primary goal of an assessment with someone seeking recovery from drug and alcohol?

A) To learn no-harm methods
B) To establish safety and to build awareness of risk and harm
C) To establish new coping skills for self-medicated use
D) To be screened and to get help for drug use

Question 10

What are two types of assessments used with clients in recovery?

A) Self-reporting and alcohol screening instruments
B) Michigan Alcohol Screening Test and Drug Abuse Screening Test
C) Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory and self-reporting
D) Alcohol Screening Exam and Michigan Model

Question 11

When using the harm reduction philosophy, the drug user is the expert.

Question 12

Three common types of addiction are nicotine, alcohol, and drugs.

Question 13

All races use drugs and alcohol at very different rates.

Question 14

The change theory is a common behavioral model that is integrated with motivational interviewing for users in recovery.

Question 15

The role of a social worker in recovery is to provide support and education options for recovery, to facilitate the healing process, and to understand boundaries for change.

Question 16

When a client asks about a practitioner's substance use history, the client has crossed a boundary and should be told to facilitate their own process.

Question 17

Social workers have a responsibility to protect their clients when they disclose an intention to use drugs or alcohol.

Question 18

A legal concern that social workers have about their clients is their engagement in behavior which may result in criminal charges.

Question 19

Describe three services drug users can obtain through needle exchange programs beyond the receipt of clean needles.

Question 20

Describe why working with substance users is complex and what social workers can do to create a more welcoming environment for this population.

Question 21

Identify and describe at least three of the realities suggested by the Harm Reduction Coalition that practitioners should explore in order to be culturally competent with the population seeking recovery.