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Bill has been drinking since he was 15 years old, and has been convicted of three driving under the influence offences. His treatment needs would require intervention at which of the following stages?

A) Primary prevention.
B) Secondary prevention
C) Sophisticated prevention
D) Tertiary prevention

E) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

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Who are primary prevention programs aimed at?

A) Elderly patients who may need medication assistance.
B) Adolescents who require substance abuse treatment.
C) Young people who have not tried drugs.
D) Addicts who require prevention or follow up.

E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

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Question 3

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You are a school principal and you have been asked by an education committee to implement the most widely used resistance-oriented prevention program. Which one is it?

The "Drug-Free Schools" approach has a big focus on drug laws and school policies, supporting the idea that illicit drug use is wrong and harmful.

The 2004 Inuit Health Survey estimated what percentage of people had used cannabis in the past year, compared to the Canadian national average?

The textbook pointed out that drug prevention and drug ________ might have different goals and use different approaches.

The Institute of Medicine has proposed a new classification of the continuum of care, which includes prevention, treatment, and maintenance. Describe the specifics that describe the Prevention efforts and how they are categorized according to the intended target population.

Describe universal drug prevention.

Which of these is NOT one of the successful components included in the social influence model?

Which of these is NOT one of the Institute of Medicine's classifications for prevention programs?

The Institute of Medicine's proposed prevention efforts are categorized primarily according to the age groups of the targeted populations.

DARE is one of the most widespread drug prevention programs in schools.

What were the most important key elements that were shown to be effective based on Evans's 1976 smoking prevention paper which introduced a psychological inoculation approach based on the social influence model?

When was Canada's National Anti-Drug Strategy launched?

One of the top programs on SAMHSA's list of effective prevention programs is DARE.

Describe the 1960s socially realities and the educational strategies of the day, which eventually lead to the 1970s implementation of The Knowledge-Attitudes-Behaviour Model.

As a member of a profession that is generally responsible for the DARE program you will be taking the lead on launching a new program in a newly built school. What is your role?

Martha told a judge the reason she broke into a car was to steal a laptop so she could sell it to support her drug habit. What type of intervention will the judge most likely use in response to substance misuse?

Why and when was there an interest in drug prevention initiatives?

What has research on the DARE program exposed?