Deck 2: Alcohol and Its Costs

Question 1

Alcohol related health care costs include:

A) Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
B) brief interventions
C) injury treatment
D) all of the choices
E) only Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and brief interventions

Answer 1

all of the choices

Question 2

Since the 1980s when alcohol consumption ____, there has been a steady ____.

A) peaked; decline
B) declined; rise
C) dropped; decline
D) jumped; rise

Answer 2

peaked; decline

Question 3

Following Prohibition, per capita consumption:

A) changed little
B) rapidly increased by 50%
C) very slowly began to rise
D) actually declined because of the Depression

Answer 3

rapidly increased by 50%

Question 4

In terms of per capita consumption, of the total alcohol consumed from all beverages:

A) the proportions from beer, wine, and liquor are about equal
B) the proportion from beer is almost 75% of the total alcohol consumption
C) the smallest proportion of alcohol comes from liquor
D) the smallest proportion of alcohol comes from wine

Question 5

In government surveys, a current drinker is defined as someone who:

A) has a drink at least once a week
B) has had a drink in the past month
C) has had a drink in the past four months
D) has alcohol in the home

Question 6

In government surveys, a binge drinker is defined as:

A) having had five or more drinks on one occasion in the last month
B) having five or more drinks on one occasion in the past week
C) having five or more drinks in less than three hours
D) having five or more drinks, per occasion, at least twice a week

Question 7

In government surveys, a heavy drinker is defined as:

A) having 3 or more drinks two days in a row
B) having 3 or more drinks at least 10 times a month
C) having 5 or more drinks twice in the past week
D) having had 5 or more drinks on at least five occasions in the past month

Question 8

Comparing the per capita levels of alcohol consumption of different countries can be complicated by:

A) differences in the proportion of older and younger people in the populations
B) the time of year the survey is conducted
C) the types of beverage that are consumed
D) None of the above

Question 9

What proportion of Americans drinks no alcohol?

A) approximately a tenth
B) approximately a quarter
C) approximately a third
D) approximately a half

Question 10

Statistically, within the U.S. population, the proportion of drinkers:

A) increases as people get older
B) decreases as people are more well-educated
C) increases as income increases
D) is lower among whites as compared to Hispanics and African Americans

Question 11

Social costs of alcohol use include:

A) tax revenues
B) alcohol manufacturing and sales income
C) treatment for alcoholism
D) philanthropic contributions by the alcohol industry

Question 12

Alcohol-related deaths may account for as much as what percentage of deaths annually?

A) 5%
B) 10%
C) 20%
D) 25%

Question 13

Perpetrators of violent crime are most likely to be using:

A) PCP
B) heroin
C) alcohol
D) crack cocaine

Question 14

Alcohol use plays a significant role in which of the following?

A) suicide
B) drownings
C) neither of the choices
D) both of the choices

Question 15

Less than 10% of the population consumes 50% of all the alcohol.

Question 16

Since data has been systematically collected, alcohol consumption in the U.S. peaked in the early 1980s.

Question 17

The South has the highest proportion of abstainers, and among drinkers, the highest rate of heavy drinkers.

Question 18

In international rankings, the United States is among the top five countries in per capita consumption.

Question 19

In a fatal accident involving a pedestrian, it is more likely that the pedestrian has been drinking than the driver.

Question 20

The family unit as well as the alcohol-troubled person has higher health-care costs.

Question 21

A major component of alcohol-related health care costs is alcohol treatment.

Question 22

Eradication of poppy fields in Afghanistan has reduced the crop by only 1-2%.

Question 23

About 45-50% of the world's heroin comes from Afghanistan.

Question 24

Alcohol related motor vehicle fatalities, involving an alcohol-impaired driver have been declining among younger drivers.

Question 25

Less than 15% of alcohol related health care spending is on rehabilitation and treatment.

Question 26

The higher the BAC, the higher the risk of injury from a fall.

Question 27

Suicide is almost never successful when the individual has been drinking.

Question 28

The proportion of those with alcohol abuse and alcoholism who receive treatment now surpasses 50%.