Prevention
Treatment Methods
Treatment Considerations
Prevention Strategies
Grab Bag
100
This term refers to the very broad range of activities aimed at reducing the risk of drug use among non-users
What is tier 1 prevention/primary prevention or universal?
100
This is the type of program where people live in a treatment center for awhile.
What is Long-term residential
100
A condition where two or more illnesses occur in the same person
What is co-morbidity or dual-diagnosis?
100
Drug education in elementary, junior high, senior high, and college level is this type of prevention.
What is school-based prevention
100
was developed as a structured interview to assess problem severity in seven areas frequently affected by substance use disorders.
The ASI, Addiction Severity Index
200
Early Aggressive Behavior, Lack of Parental Supervision, Drug Availability, and Poverty These are examples of.....
What are risk factors?
200
This is a precursor to treatment where patients are supervised while drugs are eliminated from their system
What is medical detoxification?
200
Two important considerations to weigh in treatment
What are cost and time
200
Effective programs should use this kind of strategies, such as role-playing, practice, discussion etc
What are interactive teaching methods?
200
This is the term when people are diagnosed with both substance abuse and mental illnesses.
What is co-morbidity or dual-diagnosis?
300
This is also called "early intervention"
What is secondary or targeted prevention
300
Individuals learn to identify and correct problematic thoughts and their associated behaviors
What cognitive-behavioral therapy
300
Mental illnesses can sometimes lead to substance abuse b/c individuals sometimes abuse drugs to do this.
What is self-medicate
300
This approach is based on the idea that if youth understand the dangers of drugs then they will stay away.
What is Cognitive model?
300
This specifies that a diagnosis of substance dependence is made when there has been a maladaptive pattern of substance use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by at least three of seven symptoms or behaviors that have occurred within the same 12-month period.
What is the DSM-IV?
400
Prevention programs should enhance these
What are protective factors?
400
We admitted that we had become powerless over alcohol
What is one of the ten steps of AA
400
Needs medical exam Needs medications evaluated Pain status needs to be assessed This is an example of one.
What is a problem list
400
This strategy tries to correct misconceptions about the norms of alcohol and other drug use
What is normative education approach?
400
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
What is the first step of AA's Twelve Steps?
500
The beliefs and actions of peers regarding substance abuse is a protective or risk factor at this level.
What is Interpersonal or Societal level
500
This method is very controversial and viewed by some as soft on crime
What are drug courts
500
Treatment plans typically include three to five specific ones
What are treatment goals?
500
This is one of the strategies used in prevention programs that use affective strategies.
What is raising self-esteem, teaching values, teaching life skills
500
This type of prevention program should enhance family relationships and parenting skills and provide drug education
What are family-based prevention programs?