Levels of Intervention in Substance Abuse Prevention – Study Guide, Key Concepts & Practice Questions

Levels of Intervention in Substance Abuse Prevention – Study Guide, Key Concepts & Practice
Questions



Levels of Intervention in Substance-Abuse Prevention - correct answer ✔✔*Substance-abuse
prevention efforts fall into three basic levels of intervention: primary, secondary, and tertiary.

*Primary prevention focuses on populations that have had only minimal or no exposure to
drugs.



Levels of Intervention in Substance-Abuse Prevention - correct answer ✔✔*Secondary
prevention focuses on populations whose drug experience has not yet been associated with
serious long-term problems.

*Tertiary prevention focuses on populations who have entered treatment; the goal is to prevent
relapse.



Strategies for Substance-Abuse Prevention - correct answer ✔✔*The U.S. federal agency
specifically charged with prevention programs is the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
(CSAP), a division of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA),
which is in turn a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.



Strategies for Substance-Abuse Prevention - correct answer ✔✔*The overall strategy for
substance-abuse prevention is to minimize the risk factors in a person's life with respect to
drug-taking behavior and to maximize the protective factors.



Strategies for Substance-Abuse Prevention - correct answer ✔✔*The inclination to resist the
effects of risk factors for drug-taking behavior through the action of protective factors is
referred to as resilience.



Strategies for Substance-Abuse Prevention - correct answer ✔✔*In order to be "evidence-
based," primary and secondary prevention programs must be evaluated against a control group
that did not receive the intervention.

*Positive change per se is not enough for a judgment of success.