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Essay answers to each question must be 3 brief sentences, but kept within the bounds of an essay exam. 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.
1. Discuss the components of school-based substance-abuse prevention programs that have worked in the past.
2. Discuss the importance of different sociocultural filters for effective substance-abuse prevention.
3. Describe the biopsychosocial model of substance abuse treatment.
4. Describe and elaborate on the present-day concerns about gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB).
5. Discuss the phenomenon of dependence, acute toxicity, and some medical applications of caffeine.
6. Relate the biomedical model of mental illness to the development of psychiatric drugs.
7. Discuss sleep aids and cough-and-cold remedies as some of the other classes of over-the-counter drugs.
8. Analyze the challenges in designing effective substance-abuse treatment programs.
9. 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.
10. Examine the importance of family systems in substance-abuse prevention attempts.
