Deck 4: Alcohol Use Disorders

Question 1

Approximately how many Americans are alcohol dependent?

A) 3 million
B) 10 million
C) 18 million
D) 30 million

Answer 1

18 million

Question 2

Alcohol dependence was not understood as being a disease until:

A) the Middle Ages
B) Prohibition
C) the mid-twentieth century
D) the rise of managed health care

Answer 2

the mid-twentieth century

Question 3

Which of the following has never had an official definition of "alcoholism"?

A) Alcoholics Anonymous
B) American Medical Association
C) American Psychiatric Association
D) World Health Organization

Answer 3

Alcoholics Anonymous

Question 4

The "father of alcohol studies" is:

A) E.M. Jellinek
B) Mark Keller
C) Marty Mann
D) George Vaillant

Question 5

Alcoholism is best described as what type of illness?

A) acute
B) chronic
C) terminal
D) psychosomatic

Question 6

In Jellinek's disease formulation of alcoholism, the following four phases of alcoholism are described: the prealcoholic phase, the prodromol phase, the crucial phase, and the:

A) final phase
B) chronic phase
C) alcoholic phase
D) hopeless phase

Question 7

As categorized in "The Disease Concept of Alcoholism," binge drinking is a characteristic of:

A) alpha alcoholism
B) beta alcoholism
C) delta alcoholism
D) epsilon alcoholism

Question 8

Secondary alcoholism is:

A) not as serious as familial alcoholism
B) the opposite of reactive alcoholism
C) an outgrowth of a psychiatric illness or major psychological problem
D) not necessary to treat as long as the underlying cause is treated

Question 9

According to the National Council on Alcoholism's 1972 article, what do laboratory tests provide that can be used to diagnose alcoholism?

A) direct observations
B) physiological and clinical data
C) an explicit, firm set of standards
D) behavioral, psychological and attitudinal data

Question 10

Diagnostic criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, ed. 4 includes all of the following EXCEPT:

A) signs
B) symptoms
C) underlying causes
D) very specific diagnostic criteria

Question 11

Studies have shown that alcohol abuse develops into alcohol dependence in what percentage of people diagnosed as alcohol abusers?

A) 10%
B) 30%
C) 75%
D) 100%

Question 12

George Vaillant's study showed that which of the following is a good predictor of alcoholism?

A) lower socio-economic status
B) personality problems
C) psychological problems
D) family history of alcoholism

Question 13

It is beneficial to clearly define diagnostic criteria for alcoholism because:

A) it facilitates insurance reimbursement
B) it is less judgmental
C) it provides guidance for identifying alcoholics
D) it provides jobs in health-care and other helping professions

Question 14

Chronic disease management involves all but which of the following?

A) family involvement
B) education
C) a passive patient
D) ongoing treatment

Question 15

It is now more socially acceptable to drink to excess than it used to be.

Question 16

"Alcoholism" is alcohol dependence.

Question 17

Physicians and nurses have always treated alcoholism.

Question 18

Studies of shopping, sexual, and Internet addictions have confirmed the validity of the disease model for alcoholism.

Question 19

Newly conducted experiments have proven alcoholism to be an illness.

Question 20

Some of the categories of alcoholism described in Jellinek's "The Disease Concept of Alcoholism"
are not diseases.

Question 21

Alcoholism is incurable.

Question 22

Alcoholism is highly treatable.

Question 23

According to the DSM-IV TR, "substance use disorders"
include alcohol dependence and alcohol abuse.

Question 24

There is little overlap between the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and the International Classification of Diseases.

Question 25

George Vaillant agreed with E.M. Jellinek that alcoholism's symptoms emerge in a predictable progression.

Question 26

Vaillant's study confirmed the presence of an alcoholic personality which predisposes people to develop alcohol dependence.