How Much Do You Know About Substance Abuse? Quiz

1. After drinking two beers, an individual who wants to "sober up" before driving across town to visit a friend would be best advised to:

Wait at least two hours

Drink 2-3 cups of black coffee

Engage in 20 minutes of strenuous exercise

Any of the above

2. The World Health Organization has distinguished between drug "habituation" and drug "addiction." Drug habituation is characterized by which of the following:

Physical dependence

A desire to take drugs in order to feel better

A tendency to increase the amount of a drug taken

Severe withdrawal symptoms

3. Alcoholics tend to have families of origin characterized by:

Abnormally high levels of cohesiveness

High degree of independence

Over-expression of emotions

Conflict

4. From a family therapy perspective, alcohol is viewed as a "family disease" because:

Drinking by one family member is often perpetuated by the behaviors of other family members

Heredity may be a causative factor in at least some cases of alcoholism

Drinking by one family member affects all other family members

All of the above

5. Research has indicated that alcohol consumption is associated with approximately 52% of all traffic deaths. Which of the following groups is most often involved in traffic accidents involving the use of alcohol?

Social drinkers who have consumed small quantities of alcohol

Women who are alcoholics

Men with a long history of alcohol-related problems

Men with no prior alcohol-related problems

6. Proponents of Alcoholics Anonymous view alcoholism as:

A learned behavior

A sign of psychopathology

A disease

All of the above

7. Studies examining the incidences of alcoholism among parents and their offspring have generally indicated that what percentage of alcoholics have a parent who is also an alcoholic?

7%

20%

33%

50%

8. Some authorities in the field of alcohol abuse have suggested that controlled drinking is an appropriate treatment goal for certain alcoholics. This view best reflects the underlying philosophy of which of the following:

Alcoholics Anonymous

The disease model of alcoholism

Psychoanalytic theory

None of the above

9. Alcoholic family systems tend to be characterized by all of the following except:

Rigidly defined family roles

Inconsistency

Arbitrariness

Overt and/or covert chaos

10. A disease that is associated with extended alcohol consumption and is believed to be the result of a vitamin B deficiency is known as:

Alcohol hallucinations

Delirium tremens

Korsakoff's disease

Wernicke's disease

11. The primary purpose of Al-Anon is to:

Help alcoholics overcome their addiction

Help spouses of alcoholics cope with personal problems related to alcoholism

Help spouses learn how to help their husbands or wives stop drinking

Help the children of alcoholics learn how to cope with problems related to alcoholism

12. The oldest child in an alcoholic family system is typically:

The mascot

The family hero

The family scapegoat

The lost child

13. Which of the following tends to be the strongest predictor of drug use among young people?

Early school failure

Parental drug use

Friends who use drugs

A family history of alcoholism

14. After alcohol, which of the following is generally considered to be the most commonly abused type of drug?

Major tranquilizers

Hallucinogens

Amphetamines

Barbiturates

15. With regards to boundaries, which of the following tends to be true of alcoholic families:

Boundaries tend to be very rigid

Boundaries tend to be overly flexible and unpredictable

Boundaries tend to fluctuate unpredictably between rigidity and flexibility