D+B Ch 17: Preventing Substance Abuse – Study Guide, Key Concepts & Practice
Questions
The Department of Labor in the U.S government expects employers to state clearly that drug
use on the job is unacceptable and to notify employees of the consequences of violating
company policy regarding drug use, with the ultimate goal being to ______ - correct answer
✔✔prevent drug use
Types of programs that inform people about substance use - correct answer ✔✔Education
Programs: They measure their success by how much a person knows about habit-forming
substances
Propaganda Programs: They measure their success by how many people are convinced never to
use any habit- forming substances
What are the major reasons for organizing prevention programs at the community level -
correct answer ✔✔-Coordinated approaches have greater impacts than isolated programs that
occur only in schools
-Drug-abuse prevention and drug education are controversial and emotional topics in which
parents wish to be involved
DARE - correct answer ✔✔Drug Abuse Resistance Education
-Most popular prevention program in American schools, and it had fairly modest beginnings in
1983 as a joint project of the Los Angeles police department and school district.
Peer participation programs almost never focus on ________ in any significant way since the
idea is to help people become participating members of society - correct answer ✔✔Drug use
Family Interaction Approach - correct answer ✔✔Approach taken by drug- prevention programs
that involved placing parents in the roles of teacher of drug facts and coordinator of household
action, thus strengthening their knowledge and skills.
, Who are the targets of the Strengthening Families drug- abuse prevention program? - correct
answer ✔✔Children of parents who are substance abusers
What are the goals of secondary drug-abuse prevention programs? - correct answer ✔✔-The
prevention of the use of dangerous substances
-The prevention of the development of dangerous forms os use of a substance
Prevention Efforts - correct answer ✔✔Universal Prevention: programs are de-signed for
delivery to an entire population
Selective Prevention: strategies are designed for groups within the general population that are
deemed to be at high risk
Indicated Prevention: strategies are targeted at individuals who show signs of developing
problems
In response to concerns in the mid-1980s that effective education approaches placed too little
emphasis on skills needed to resist the interpersonal pressures to begin using drugs, the next
efforts at preventing drug use focused on teaching students to _________ - correct answer
✔✔recognize and respond to peer pressure to use drugs
Drug-Abuse Prevention Programs - correct answer ✔✔Project ALERT: This was first tested in 30
junior high schools and involved classifying each student as a non-used, an experimenter, or a
user of marijuana, alcohol, or cigarettes
Life Skills Training: This three-year program based on the social influence model taught
resistance skills, normative education, media influences, self-management skills, and general
social skills.
In 1994, large-scale studies of the effects on the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE)
programs found that the programs _______ - correct answer ✔✔produced marginal effects on
drug use
Questions
The Department of Labor in the U.S government expects employers to state clearly that drug
use on the job is unacceptable and to notify employees of the consequences of violating
company policy regarding drug use, with the ultimate goal being to ______ - correct answer
✔✔prevent drug use
Types of programs that inform people about substance use - correct answer ✔✔Education
Programs: They measure their success by how much a person knows about habit-forming
substances
Propaganda Programs: They measure their success by how many people are convinced never to
use any habit- forming substances
What are the major reasons for organizing prevention programs at the community level -
correct answer ✔✔-Coordinated approaches have greater impacts than isolated programs that
occur only in schools
-Drug-abuse prevention and drug education are controversial and emotional topics in which
parents wish to be involved
DARE - correct answer ✔✔Drug Abuse Resistance Education
-Most popular prevention program in American schools, and it had fairly modest beginnings in
1983 as a joint project of the Los Angeles police department and school district.
Peer participation programs almost never focus on ________ in any significant way since the
idea is to help people become participating members of society - correct answer ✔✔Drug use
Family Interaction Approach - correct answer ✔✔Approach taken by drug- prevention programs
that involved placing parents in the roles of teacher of drug facts and coordinator of household
action, thus strengthening their knowledge and skills.
, Who are the targets of the Strengthening Families drug- abuse prevention program? - correct
answer ✔✔Children of parents who are substance abusers
What are the goals of secondary drug-abuse prevention programs? - correct answer ✔✔-The
prevention of the use of dangerous substances
-The prevention of the development of dangerous forms os use of a substance
Prevention Efforts - correct answer ✔✔Universal Prevention: programs are de-signed for
delivery to an entire population
Selective Prevention: strategies are designed for groups within the general population that are
deemed to be at high risk
Indicated Prevention: strategies are targeted at individuals who show signs of developing
problems
In response to concerns in the mid-1980s that effective education approaches placed too little
emphasis on skills needed to resist the interpersonal pressures to begin using drugs, the next
efforts at preventing drug use focused on teaching students to _________ - correct answer
✔✔recognize and respond to peer pressure to use drugs
Drug-Abuse Prevention Programs - correct answer ✔✔Project ALERT: This was first tested in 30
junior high schools and involved classifying each student as a non-used, an experimenter, or a
user of marijuana, alcohol, or cigarettes
Life Skills Training: This three-year program based on the social influence model taught
resistance skills, normative education, media influences, self-management skills, and general
social skills.
In 1994, large-scale studies of the effects on the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE)
programs found that the programs _______ - correct answer ✔✔produced marginal effects on
drug use
