Chapter 17
Preventing Substance Abuse
Multiple Choice Questions
1. (p. 390-391) 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
Blooms Level: 01. Remember
2. (p. 391) Primary prevention programs are aimed at
A. elderly patients that may need medication assistance.
B. adolescents who require substance abuse treatment.
C. young people who have not tried drugs.
D. addicts that require prevention or follow up.
Blooms Level: 01. Remember
3. (p. 391) In the public health model, programs designed to reach people who have started using
some substances and to prevent them from abusing these substances or moving to more
dangerous substances, would be classified as
A. motivational.
B. educational.
C. secondary prevention.
D. triage.
Blooms Level: 01. Remember
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, 4. (p. 391-392) Tertiary prevention programs are aimed at
A. elderly patients that may need medication assistance.
B. adolescents who require substance abuse treatment.
C. young people who have not tried drugs.
D. people who have completed treatment for dependence and need relapse prevention or
follow up.
Blooms Level: 01. Remember
5. (p. 392) 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
Blooms Level: 01. Remember
6. (p. 393-394) In the early 1970s, the Knowledge-Attitudes-Behavior model began to be
questioned when it was learned that
A. drug users didn't much care what people thought about them.
B. students with more knowledge about drugs had a more positive attitude toward drugs.
C. drug-using behavior is unrelated to attitudes about drug use.
D. it was more effective just to use scare tactics.
Blooms Level: 01. Remember
7. (p. 394) Having students discuss their reactions to various moral and ethical dilemmas as a
means to help them clarify their own values was one example of the general prevention
approach known as
A. moral rearmament.
B. talk therapy.
C. cognitive development.
D. affective education.
Blooms Level: 01. Remember
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Preventing Substance Abuse
Multiple Choice Questions
1. (p. 390-391) 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
Blooms Level: 01. Remember
2. (p. 391) Primary prevention programs are aimed at
A. elderly patients that may need medication assistance.
B. adolescents who require substance abuse treatment.
C. young people who have not tried drugs.
D. addicts that require prevention or follow up.
Blooms Level: 01. Remember
3. (p. 391) In the public health model, programs designed to reach people who have started using
some substances and to prevent them from abusing these substances or moving to more
dangerous substances, would be classified as
A. motivational.
B. educational.
C. secondary prevention.
D. triage.
Blooms Level: 01. Remember
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, 4. (p. 391-392) Tertiary prevention programs are aimed at
A. elderly patients that may need medication assistance.
B. adolescents who require substance abuse treatment.
C. young people who have not tried drugs.
D. people who have completed treatment for dependence and need relapse prevention or
follow up.
Blooms Level: 01. Remember
5. (p. 392) 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
Blooms Level: 01. Remember
6. (p. 393-394) In the early 1970s, the Knowledge-Attitudes-Behavior model began to be
questioned when it was learned that
A. drug users didn't much care what people thought about them.
B. students with more knowledge about drugs had a more positive attitude toward drugs.
C. drug-using behavior is unrelated to attitudes about drug use.
D. it was more effective just to use scare tactics.
Blooms Level: 01. Remember
7. (p. 394) Having students discuss their reactions to various moral and ethical dilemmas as a
means to help them clarify their own values was one example of the general prevention
approach known as
A. moral rearmament.
B. talk therapy.
C. cognitive development.
D. affective education.
Blooms Level: 01. Remember
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