Deck 17: Preventing Substance Abuse

Question 1

Teaching students relaxation or meditation techniques was seen as one possible way of providing which of the following?

A) Alternatives to drug use
B) Enhanced self-esteem
C) Values clarification
D) Refusal skills

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of these is NOT one of the successful components included in the social influence model?

A) Making a public commitment not to smoke
B) Countering cigarette advertising
C) Discussing the penalties for getting caught with cigarettes
D) Use of teen leaders

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Martha told a judge the reason she broke into a car was to steal a laptop so she could sell it to support her drug habit. What type of intervention will the judge most likely use in response to substance misuse?

A) Primary prevention
B) Secondary prevention
C) Sophisticated prevention
D) Tertiary prevention

Answer 3

B

Question 4

When was Canada's National Anti-Drug Strategy launched?

A) 1985
B) 1997
C) 2002
D) 2007

Question 5

Martin, a high school social worker is leading a group discussion about alternatives to drinking with students who have already indicated that they drink alcohol. Which prevention category would this describe?

A) Primary prevention
B) Secondary prevention
C) Sophisticated prevention
D) Tertiary prevention

Question 6

If efforts are made to prevent drug-taking behaviour from occurring when it has NOT yet happened then what type of strategy is being used?

A) Primary prevention
B) Secondary prevention
C) Sophisticated prevention
D) Tertiary prevention

Question 7

In the early 1970s, why was the Knowledge-Attitudes-Behaviour model questioned?

A) Drug users didn't care much what people thought about them
B) Students with more knowledge about drugs had a more positive attitude toward drugs
C) Drug-using behaviour is unrelated to attitudes about drug use
D) It was more effective just to use scare tactics

Question 8

How would the public health model describe programs designed to reach people who have already started using some substances, but the goal is to help them avoid further substance abuse or moving to more dangerous substances be classified?

A) Motivational
B) Educational
C) Secondary prevention
D) Triage

Question 9

The textbook pointed out that drug prevention and drug ________ might have different goals and use different approaches.

A) education
B) mitigation
C) interdiction
D) demand reduction

Question 10

Which type of program typically emphasizes exploration of one's own needs and beliefs regarding drugs?

A) Affect-oriented prevention
B) Values clarification programs
C) Knowledge-attitudes-behaviour approaches
D) DARE

Question 11

Who are primary prevention programs aimed at?

A) Elderly patients who may need medication assistance.
B) Adolescents who require substance abuse treatment.
C) Young people who have not tried drugs.
D) Addicts who require prevention or follow up.

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT one of the changes that took place to the original 2007 Canadian National Anti-Drug Strategy?

A) In 2013 the Government of Canada expanded the Strategy to include prescription drug abuse
B) In 2013 the Government of Canada eliminated the strategy to include prescription drug abuts
C) In 2017 the strategy was renamed the Canadian Drug and Substance Abuse Strategy
D) Harm reduction as a fourth pillar was reinstated in 2017

Question 13

Which approach makes the assumption that what is lacking in drug-using adolescents is not factual information about drugs but, rather, the ability to make appropriate decisions based on that information?

A) Alternatives to Drugs
B) Reality Alternatives
C) Personal and Social Skills
D) Values Clarification

Question 14

Which of these is NOT one of the Institute of Medicine's classifications for prevention programs?

A) Affective prevention
B) Universal prevention
C) Selective prevention
D) Indicated prevention

Question 15

Which of the following does NOT represent a strategy used in the Development of the Social Influence Model?

A) Personal commitment using journals
B) Countering advertising
C) Value Clarification
D) Training refusal skills (e.g. how to say no)

Question 16

The social influence model grew out of a 1976 paper describing a successful prevention approach aimed at what?

A) Bullying
B) Binge drinking
C) Early sexual involvement
D) Cigarette smoking

Question 17

When did drug prevention initiatives begin?

A) Late 1800s
B) Early 1900s
C) Late 1950s
D) Early 1960s

Question 18

Bill has been drinking since he was 15 years old, and has been convicted of three driving under the influence offences. His treatment needs would require intervention at which of the following stages?

A) Primary prevention.
B) Secondary prevention
C) Sophisticated prevention
D) Tertiary prevention

Question 19

Project ALERT and Life Skills Training were included as examples of which of the following?

A) Programs that work, according to the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
B) Values clarification programs
C) Knowledge-attitudes-behaviour approaches
D) Ineffective and outdated approaches

Question 20

Which general prevention approach asked students to discuss their reactions to various moral and ethical dilemmas as a means to help them clarify their own values?

A) Moral recognition inventory
B) Talk therapy
C) Cognitive development
D) Values clarification

Question 21

A 1984 review of prevention studies concluded that values clarification approaches were clearly effective in actually preventing future drug use.

Question 22

The Institute of Medicine's proposed prevention efforts are categorized primarily according to the age groups of the targeted populations.

Question 23

Which of these was NOT identified as an effective family-based drug prevention approach?

A) Parenting skills
B) Family interaction exercises
C) Providing urine test kits to parents
D) Parent support groups

Question 24

The 2008 Inuit Health Survey estimated what percentage of people from Inuit communities had used cannabis in the past year?

A) 33%
B) 43%
C) 53%
D) 63%

Question 25

Out-of-school peer programs include peer influence approaches, as well as which of the following?

A) Peer participation programs
B) Peer policing programs
C) Peer evaluation
D) Peer pressure reversal

Question 26

Drug education programs are designed to reduce drug use.

Question 27

What does the DARE program stands for?

A) Drug Abuse Responsible Education
B) Drug Abuse Required Education
C) Drug Abuse Resistance Education
D) None of these are correct

Question 28

Studies of school-based prevention programs in the 1970s showed that students who knew more about drugs and their effects were least likely to use those drugs.

Question 29

In discussing what we should be doing in drug prevention, the text says, "above all _____."

A) never admit your own substance use
B) make people believe they will be caught and punished
C) avoid sensational scare stories and preachy approaches
D) make sure that people get a complete understanding of the drug's pharmacology

Question 30

Drug prevention programs are a relatively new concept dating back to the late 1970s.

Question 31

You are a school principal and you have been asked by an education committee to implement the most widely used resistance-oriented prevention program. Which one is it?

A) AA
B) DARE
C) MADD
D) SADD

Question 32

What has research on the DARE program exposed?

A) Most parents and community members don't approve of it
B) It has not produced statistically significant reductions in drug use
C) Gang activity is greater in schools with DARE programs
D) It consistently reduces binge drinking and marijuana initiation

Question 33

As a member of a profession that is generally responsible for the DARE program you will be taking the lead on launching a new program in a newly built school. What is your role?

A) A counsellor
B) A police officer
C) A public health nurse
D) A teacher

Question 34

Project ALERT is one of the "programs that work" that the textbook describes.

Question 35

What has been the most consistent feature of workplace drug prevention programs?

A) Informational posters and videotapes
B) Random urine testing
C) Video surveillance of restrooms
D) Use of drug dogs to check desks, lockers, etc

Question 36

The "Drug-Free Schools" approach has a big focus on drug laws and school policies, supporting the idea that illicit drug use is wrong and harmful.

Question 37

Canada's National Anti-Drug Strategy is a collaborative effort among all of the following EXCEPT which one?

A) Health Canada
B) Department of Aboriginal Justice
C) Department of Justice
D) Public Safety Canada

Question 38

The Social Influence Model was first developed in a prison setting with former heroin users.

Question 39

The values clarification approach makes the assumption that what is lacking in drug-using adolescents is factual information about.

Question 40

What is one of SAMHSA's model community prevention initiatives?

A) Focuses on heroin users in inner city neighbourhoods
B) Is aimed primarily at AIDS prevention
C) Works for changes in alcohol policies and ordinances
D) A home-based version of DARE

Question 41

How common are DARE programs in Canada, and which profession is predominately responsible for providing the content?

Question 42

Describe universal drug prevention.

Question 43

Although the DARE program had some effects on reported self-esteem, there was no evidence for long-term reductions in self-reported use of drugs.

Question 44

What is Project ALERT, and how effective is it?

Question 45

The Institute of Medicine has proposed a new classification of the continuum of care, which includes prevention, treatment, and maintenance. Describe the specifics that describe the Prevention efforts and how they are categorized according to the intended target population.

Question 46

Describe the social realities of the 1960s and the educational strategies of the day, which eventually lead to the implementation of The Knowledge-Attitudes-Behaviour Model in the 1970s

Question 47

What were the most important key elements that were shown to be effective based on Evans's 1976 smoking prevention paper which introduced a psychological inoculation approach based on the social influence model?

Question 48

What is Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol?

Question 49

One of the top programs on SAMHSA's list of effective prevention programs is DARE.

Question 50

Canada's approach to prevention is directed through the National Anti-Drug Strategy, which was launched 1985.

Question 51

Compared to families, fewer prevention programs have been based on using parent and community influences.

Question 52

Describe the unfolding changes since the first Canadian Drug and Substance Strategy was launched in 2007.

Question 53

When considering the various programs that have worked with parents, most of the programs include more than one which approach.

Question 54

Describe at least three of the components of the Social Influence Model of drug prevention.

Question 55

Describe the outcome of two important, large-scale studies of the effects of DARE that were released in 1994.

Question 56

Why and when was there an interest in drug prevention initiatives?

Question 57

What should be avoided when planning or offering drug/alcohol Prevention Programs for youth?

Question 58

DARE is one of the most widespread drug prevention programs in schools.

Question 59

What were some of the concerns of early drug education?

Question 60

What was the "Don't be a Patsy" program, and what was the outcome?

Question 61

Describe the risk factors that have been identified as contributors to the level of substance abuse in First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Communities