Addiction & Subs Abuse MidTerm
Answer each question in a minimum 300 words, completely and fully for full credit. Source credits and the required Reference list attached at the end of each answer do no count toward its word length.
Answers are to be based on the course textbook and outside academic sources (excluding other course textbooks, encyclopedias such as Encarte and Wikipedia, About.com and Ask.com type websites that synthesize source information for users, magazines, news websites, blogs, etc.).
Essay answers must be more than 3 or 4 brief sentences, but kept within the bounds of a short-answer essay exam (i.e., 2-3 paragraphs).
All your writing must be in your own words. Paraphrase (restate what you read) rather than copying material from the course textbook or the Internet.
No copying is permitted in this course and doing so will result in zero points on the exam. Answers must be written in narrative, paragraph form. Lists and/or sentence fragments also will not receive points.
You must make connections to and properly cite the textbook in each of your answers including page numbers.
Drugs, Behavior, and Modern Society, 8th Ed by Levinthal, Charles E
Levinthal, C. F. (06/2013). Drugs, Behavior, and Modern Society, 8th Edition. [Bookshelf Online].
1. Discuss the components of school-based substance-abuse prevention programs that have worked in the past.
2. Discuss the phenomenon of dependence, acute toxicity, and some medical applications of caffeine.
3. Describe and elaborate on the present-day concerns about gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB).
4. Analyze the challenges in designing effective substance-abuse treatment programs.
5. Could the public associate a valuable medicinal agent (i.e., a medicine) with the dark world of doping and performance-enhancing drugs?
Even worse, could some people accuse these companies of developing drugs the could be misused by athletes as a way of enhancing sales? Discuss the implications.
6. Relate the biomedical model of mental illness to the development of psychiatric drugs.
7. Describe the biopsychosocial model of substance abuse treatment.
8. Examine the importance of family systems in substance-abuse prevention attempts.
9. Discuss sleep aids and cough-and-cold remedies as some of the other classes of over-the-counter drugs.
10. Discuss the importance of different sociocultural filters for effective substance-abuse prevention.