Deck 17: Substance-Abuse Treatment: Strategies for Change

Question 1

Drug-related offenses represent the reason for incarceration of approximately 15 percent of all inmates in federal prisons.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

In 2008, an estimated 23.1 million individuals aged 12 or older in the United States needed treatment for an alcohol or illicit drug-use problem, yet only 4.0 million individuals received it

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Daytop Village is a rehabilitative facility designed exclusively to treat alcoholics.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Dan lives with his family in public housing. He was recently convicted of drug trafficking on the public-housing property. Under the Anti Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988, Dan’s entire family can be evicted.

Question 5

Most drug abusers abuse only one drug.

Question 6

Monsignor William O'Brien is nationally known as having founded Daytop Village.

Question 7

Most drug-related offenses in the United States are prosecuted at the federal level rather than at the state level.

Question 8

Rehabilitation is a matter of reducing the likelihood that a drug abuser will behave in a similar way in the future.

Question 9

There is a 100-to-1 disparity concerning the amount of drug possession and federal penalties for cocaine and crack respectively.

Question 10

Drug paraphernalia are defined as products whose predominant use is to administer,prepare,package,or store illicit drugs.

Question 11

Federal penalties for drug trafficking are increased up to double if the sale of the drug occurs within 1,000 feet of an elementary or secondary school

Question 12

A dual diagnosis patient is someone who abuses two drugs at the same time.

Question 13

Methadone and disulfiram (brand name: Antabuse)treatment are two examples of strategies that apply to a wide range of alcohol or drug abuse situations.

Question 14

Drug courts handle only nonviolent juvenile offenders of drug laws.

Question 15

Roughly one-half of all abusers of alcohol or other drugs have had a serious mental disorder in their lifetime.

Question 16

According to the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970,criminal penalties for illegal behavior related to drugs are determined by the drug's potential for serious abuse.

Question 17

According to the Anti Drug Abuse Act of 1986,the prison sentences for possession of crack are the same as for possession of cocaine,if the amounts are equivalent.

Question 18

A minor,almost totally irrelevant goal of incarceration is deterrence.

Question 19

In many states,it is unlawful to sell drug paraphernalia to minors unless they are accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

Question 20

Polydrug abusers are abusers of polyethylene or polyurethane products.

Question 21

The precontemplation stage immediately precedes the action stage.

Question 22

All other considerations being equal,inpatient treatment is preferred over outpatient treatment.

Question 23

Those who are most determined to stay clean and sober are those who actively avoid situations that increase the possibility of relapse.

Question 24

Taking over the responsibilities of a drug abuser is a form of enabling.

Question 25

Family scapegoats usually feel like they "fade into the woodwork" and become emotionally and physically detached from their families.

Question 26

Denial and bargaining are two typical family reactions to the condition of drug abuse.

Question 27

The enabling behavior of cooperation and collaborating occurs when enablers tell others that the drug abuse was only an isolated incident and that the abuser never was in any danger.

Question 28

Only 16 percent of drug abusers participating in a drug court program had been rearrested and charged with a felony offense-approximately one-third the level of recidivism observed in drug offenders not participating in a drug court.

Question 29

Those in the maintenance stage of change have been drug-free for at least six months.

Question 30

Feelings of denial help family members of a drug abuser avoid humiliation and shame.

Question 31

In the action stage,drug use has not yet stopped.

Question 32

Employee assistance programs focus on alcohol abuse exclusively.

Question 33

Avoiding and shielding are two forms of enabling behavior.

Question 34

One form of enabling behavior is rationalization.

Question 35

An individual in the contemplation stage of change often sets a specific "quit date."

Question 36

A person voluntarily entering a drug treatment program is more likely to succeed than someone entering because of legal pressure to do so.

Question 37

The 1988 Drug-Free Workplace Act requires non-governmental organizations to establish employee assistance programs for their workers.

Question 38

EAP stands for the slogan, Enhance All Prevention.

Question 39

Family support plays an important role in the success of drug abuse treatment.

Question 40

Contemplation and preparation are stages of change that occur after a family's acceptance of drug abuse.

Question 41

Which of the following scenarios would result in a double penalty?

A)a twenty-two-year-old man selling drugs to his seventeen-year-old brother
B)selling drugs 500 feet away from a secondary school
C)first offense trafficking of cocaine which results in bodily injury
D)all of the above

Question 42

According to the text,one of the most comprehensive sources of information on community treatment options is found in the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI).

Question 43

Claims that sound "too good to be true" are never made by a highly qualified drug abuse treatment facility.

Question 44

If you decided to avoid behavior X because you did not want the negative consequences of doing X,then you would have been reacting to a message of __________.

A)deterrence
B)tertiary prevention
C)reward
D)psychological dependence

Question 45

Federal penalties for simple possession on the first offense __________.

A)make strict distinctions among the particular schedule of drug
B)involve a maximum of community service for one week
C)are much more severe for Schedule V drugs than for Schedule I drugs
D)none of the above

Question 46

Which of the following drugs is used for both alcoholism and heroin addiction?

A)naltrexone
B)Antabuse
C)methadone
D)LAAM

Question 47

_______ is an integrated approach to drug treatment which recognizes that psychological,social,and biological factors each play a role in drug abuse.

A)The dual-diagnosis model
B)The polydrug abusers model
C)The biopsychosocial model
D)The self-medication model

Question 48

Analogy: Antabuse is to alcohol as methadone is to __________.

A)cocaine
B)heroin
C)speed
D)marijuana

Question 49

Approximately ________ of alcohol or other drug (AOD)abusers have serious mental disorders.

A)5 percent
B)20 percent
C)50 percent
D)80 percent

Question 50

Matt was walking in the schoolyard of his son’s elementary school when he sold cocaine to a drug user. The police caught him making the sale and arrested him. This is his first offense. According to the Anti Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988, what punishment should Matt expect to receive?

A)ten to twenty years in prison
B)a sentence two times longer than he would have received if he had been caught selling in the parking lot of his oldest son's college
C)one to five months' probation
D)His punishment will be determined by the laws governing the state where Matt sold the drugs.

Question 51

Narcotics Anonymous is best suited for __________.

A)cocaine addicts
B)marijuana addicts
C)heroin addicts
D)all of the above

Question 52

According to federal drug trafficking law,which schedule of controlled substances is penalized most severely?

A)Schedule I
B)Schedule II
C)Schedule III
D)Schedule IV

Question 53

An example of a strategy for treatment that cuts across different forms of drug abuse is __________.

A)methadone maintenance
B)disulfiram (brand name: Antabuse)
C)LAAM maintenance
D)a twelve-step program

Question 54

Which of the following people would be referred to as a dual-diagnosis patient?

A)a man suffering from depression and taking the drug Prozac (prescribed by his physician)
B)a heroin addict who also snorts cocaine
C)a man with anxiety disorder who also smokes marijuana
D)a woman with depression who does not take the medication that was prescribed by her doctor

Question 55

An individual who abuses heroin and frequently smokes marijuana is referred to as a __________.

A)polydrug abuser
B)multiple substance abuser
C)neither A nor B
D)both A and B

Question 56

Although 19 million people (ages 12 and over) need alcohol treatment, only 9 percent actually receive it.

Question 57

In 2009,approximately million people aged 12e or older needed treatment for an illicit drug problem.

Question 58

Joe gave his wife cocaine (a Schedule I drug) as a gift for her birthday. Upon using the cocaine, Joe’s wife went into cardiac arrest and died. Joe has never been arrested before. According to the Anti Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988, __________.

A)since it was Joe's first offense,he would not get any jail time
B)since the cocaine was a gift,Joe would not have any responsibility for his wife's death
C)Joe's penalty would be doubled
D)Joe would be charged with the murder of his wife

Question 59

Dual-diagnosis patients frequently participate in the practice of __________.

A)self-medication
B)self-diagnosing
C)self-detection
D)self-protection

Question 60

Accreditation by the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)is an important consideration in one's choice of a treatment facility.

Question 61

For charges of possessing equivalent amounts of crack cocaine and powder cocaine,__________.

A)sentences would be longer in the case of crack cocaine
B)sentences would be longer in the case of powder cocaine
C)sentences would be equivalent in the two cases
D)sentences would be restricted to probationary status only

Question 62

The oldest and largest drug-free therapeutic community for the treatment of alcohol and drug abuse is __________.

A)Alcoholics Anonymous
B)Daytop Village
C)Samaritan Village
D)Stay'n Out

Question 63

The founder of Daytop Village is __________.

A)Monsignor Patrick O'Malley
B)Ms.Candace Lightner
C)John Cardinal O'Connor
D)Monsignor William O'Brien

Question 64

Two examples of therapeutic communities are __________.

A)Alcoholics Anonymous and SMART recovery
B)prisons and probationary programs
C)Daytop Village and Samaritan Village
D)employee assistance programs (EAPs)and prisons

Question 65

Which of the following U.S.presidents gave an executive order to establish employee assistance programs (EAPs)for governmental employees in 1986?

A)Bill Clinton
B)George Bush
C)Ronald Reagan
D)Jimmy Carter

Question 66

Numerous studies have shown that drug court programs are successful in providing effective rehabilitation by __________.

A)decreasing the rate of recidivism (repeated arrests)
B)providing a cost-effective treatment
C)increasing the length of time an individual remains in treatment
D)all of the above

Question 67

Which of the following is most likely to succeed at a drug rehabilitation program?

A)a heroin user for ten years who voluntarily enters treatment for the first time
B)a cocaine addict who has been in and out of rehabilitation programs for the last five years
C)someone receiving the mandated treatment approach in a drug court program
D)an inmate at a federal prison who volunteers to go to the rehabilitation program being offered at his prison

Question 68

Drug abuse prevention programs in the workplace have two basic goals of prevention,namely __________.

A)deterrence and rehabilitation
B)reward and punishment
C)life and death
D)action and inaction

Question 69

Daytop Village and Samaritan Village are __________.

A)therapeutic communities
B)special prisons
C)presently outlawed in the United States due to improprieties
D)generally rejected by rehabilitation professionals as viable treatment options.

Question 70

According to the text,about one-half of the Daytop client populations are __________.

A)prison inmates
B)teenagers
C)alcoholics
D)licit drug users

Question 71

According to California law,judges are required to offer drug offenders probation with substance abuse treatment as an alternative to incarceration only if __________.

A)the crime committed was nonviolent
B)the crime committed was the offender's first or second offense
C)the offender is a minor
D)both A and B circumstances exist

Question 72

It is illegal for drug paraphernalia to be __________.

A)purchased by a minor unless the minor is accompanied by a parent or legal guardian
B)advertised on TV
C)exported from another country
D)all of the above

Question 73

Penalties for the sale of drug paraphernalia __________.

A)are now handled at the federal level in all cases
B)are enforced by state and municipal laws
C)have been declared unconstitutional since 1970
D)also involve drug importation,exportation,and advertising

Question 74

Approximately ______of those in public-funded drug treatment programs are there due to legal pressure.

A)a third
B)a quarter
C)half
D)three-quarters

Question 75

Which of the following people should receive the harshest federal penalty for possession of a controlled substance,according to federal guidelines?

A)a second-offense violator with heroin
B)a second-offense violator with Valium
C)a first-offense violator with cocaine
D)a second-offense violator with benzene

Question 76

Which is true about present-day incarcerated drug offenders?

A)More are in state prisons than are in federal prisons.
B)More are in federal prisons than are in state prisons.
C)They are equally divided between state and federal prisons.
D)Practically all of them are in federal prison.

Question 77

If you examined the population of inmates incarcerated in federal prisons,__________.

A)practically none of them would be drug offenders
B)about 51 percent would be drug offenders
C)many would have been transferred from state prison facilities
D)all of them would be in some drug treatment program

Question 78

A person entering a drug treatment program as a result of legal pressure __________.

A)would be more likely to drop out of the program before completion than a person entering a drug treatment program without legal pressure
B)would be as likely to drop out of the program before completion as a person entering a drug treatment program without legal pressure
C)would be less likely to drop out of the program before completion than a person entering a drug treatment program without legal pressure
D)would almost certainly drop out of the program before completion

Question 79

In the United States,most drug-related offenses are prosecuted __________.

A)at the federal level
B)at the state level
C)at the municipal (city)level
D)at the county level

Question 80

EAPs are commonplace in American companies and businesses,even though __________.

A)they have been illegal since 1993
B)there has been a sharp decline in their numbers since the mid-1990s
C)they are discouraged by the federal government
D)they are not legally required