people
A physician who saw alcohol addiction as a disease and was a signer of the declaration of independence.
Dr. Benjamin Rush
____ is credited to withe wide spread opinion that Alcoholism is a disease.
Alcoholics Anonymous
helath care is a right not a _____
privilege
more money is spent on _____ instead of _____
enforcement,prevention
---% of inidivudals with an addiction will at some time surface in the medical system.
100%
_____ is considered the founder of the american society of addiction medicine.
Ruth Fos
Narcotics Anonymous began in____
California
in ___ treating addiction in an outpatient medical setting was _____.
1967, illegal
the first addition of principles of addiction medicine was published in ____.
1994
The peak incidence of addiction is between ages __-__
15-21.
President ____ formed the special action office of drug abuse prevention in 1972.
Nixon
The hight of the countercultural drug revolution was in ___
the mid 1960's
as of 2011 addiction was defined as a primary, chronic ____ of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry.
disease
as of 2011 __ residency programs in addiction medicine have been accredited.
10
Addiction isnt just a social problem or a moral problem or a criminal problem its a ___ problem whose behaviors manifest in all these other areas.
brain
_____ formed the american academy of addictionology and moved to certify physicians specializing in alcoholism.
Doug Talbott
in ____ physicians convened to form a national organization to gain a seat in the American Medical Association house of delegates.
1983
addiction involves cycles of relapse and ____.
remission
The drug treatment act of 2000 authorizes the use of schedule III drugs such as ____ in the treatment of narcotics addiction by qualified physicians in a medical setting.
suboxone
The ___ and Ashbury free medical clinic is thought to be the first free public medical clinic.
Haight
____ wrote the article entitled the "Evolution of Addiction Medicine as a Medical Specialty."
David Smith
The special action office of drug abuse prevention, the national institute of drug abuse, and the national institute of _____ and ____ abuse made millions of dollars available for drug treatment.
Alcoholism and alcohol
medicalization greatly improves identification, ____ intervention, and ____ to appropriate treatment.
early, refferal
The establishment of ____ ____ and diversion programs acknowledges that the costs of addiction treatment are far less than incarceration.
drug courts
national recovery month is in ___
September.