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Chapter 7: Substance Abuse: A Harm Reduction Approach (Elizabeth Eastlund and Eugenia L.
Weiss)

Multiple Choice
1. What are the two drug and alcohol models used in the United States today?
a. Experimental and medical
b. Self-help and sentencing
c. Rehabilitative and treatment
*d. Moral and disease
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC

2. Which model believes that a person’s drug use will worsen over time and pays no attention to
environmental factors?
a. Moral model
b. Rehabilitative model
*c. Disease model
d. Sentencing model
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC

3. What term explains the process by which an alcohol or drug user moves from experimentation to
occasional use to regular use to heavy abuse to dependence and eventually to chaos?
a. Continuation of alcohol and drug use
*b. Continuum of alcohol and drug use
c. Development of alcohol and drug use
d. Dependence of alcohol and drug use
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC

4. The term “chaos” is closely related to what other term used in drug and alcohol treatment?
*a. Addiction
b. Sentencing
c. Harmful
d. Dependence
Cognitive Domain: Knowlege
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC

5. What are the two philosophies common in drug and alchohol treatment?
a. Cognitive and behavioral
b. Medical and rehabilitation
*c. Harm reduction and public health
d. Public health and sentencing
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC
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6. What philosophy of drug and alcohol treatment is geared at reducing harms caused by drug use at the
mezzo and macro level of the process?
a. Harm reduction
*b. Public health
c. Sentencing
d. Medical
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC

7. What is the term used to describe two or more disorders?

*a. Co-occuring disorder
b. Drug and alcohol disorder
c. Concurrent disorder
d. Bipolar disorder
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: MC

8. What three areas should be surveyed during a comprehensive assessment with a user seeking
recovery?
a. Family substance use history, neighborhood, and computer literacy skills
b. Dietary habits, withdrawal symptoms, and drug use setting
c. Learning ability, drug use setting, and rationale for seeking treatment
*d. Strengths, risks and harm, and family substance use history
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Assessment
Question Type: MC

9. What is the primary goal of an assessment with someone seeking recovery from drug and alcohol?
a. To learn no-harm methods
*b. To establish safety and to build awareness of risk and harm
c. To establish new coping skills for self-medicated use
d. To be screened and to get help for drug use
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Assessment
Question Type: MC

10. What are two types of assessments used with clients in recovery?
*a. Self-reporting and alcohol screening instruments
b. Michigan Alcohol Screening Test and Drug Abuse Screening Test
c. Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory and self-reporting
d. Alcohol Screening Exam and Michigan Model
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Assessment
Question Type: MC

True/False
1. When using the harm reduction philosophy, the drug user is the expert.
*a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge or Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
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Question Type: TF

2. Harm reduction practices reduce harm.

a. True
*b. False
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge or Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: TF

3. Three common types of addiction are nicotine, alcohol, and drugs.

*a.True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Introduction
Question Type: TF

4. All races use drugs and alcohol at very different rates.

a. True
*b. False
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Diversity Considerations
Question Type: TF

5. The change theory is a common behavioral model that is integrated with motivational interviewing for
users in recovery.
*a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Intervention
Question Type: TF

6. The role of a social worker in recovery is to provide support and education options for recovery, to
facilitate the healing process, and to understand boundaries for change.
*a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Current Status of Public Health Social Work
Question Type: TF

7. When a client asks about a practitioner’s substance use history, the client has crossed a boundary and
should be told to facilitate their own process.
a. True
*b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Transference and countertransference
Question Type: TF

8. Social workers have a responsibility to protect their clients when they disclose an intention to use drugs
or alcohol.
*a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Legal and Ethical concerns
Question Type: TF
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9. A legal concern that social workers have about their clients is their engagement in behavior which may
result in criminal charges.
*a. True
b. False
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Legal and Ethical Concerns
Question Type: TF

Short Answer
Type: S
1. Describe three services drug users can obtain through needle exchange programs beyond the receipt
of clean needles.
*a. Beyond the exchange of clean needles, most programs provide basic medical care, wound checks,
and HIV testing.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Mezzo perspective
Question Type: SA

Type: S
2. What are two changes that were proposed by the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010?
*a. The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 proposed to reduce drug sentencing disparity and to eliminate five-
year sentencing for crack cocaine.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Macro Perspective
Question Type: SA

Type: S
3. Identify the six stages in change theory.
*a. The six stages are precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and
termination.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Intervention
Question Type: SA

Essay
Type: E
1. Describe why working with substance users is complex and what social workers can do to create a
more welcoming environment for this population.
*a. Working with substance users is very complex because the problem of alcohol and drug use itself is
complex. Due to the uniqueness of each case, solutions are not always straightforward. Much of the
macro level practice focuses on sentencing substance users to prison despite knowing that it does not
help in rehabilitation. From a social work perspective, it is important to take a nonjudgmental stance and
to infuse harm reduction approaches in practice.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Conclusion
Question Type: ESS

Type: E
2. Identify and describe at least three of the realities suggested by the Harm Reduction Coalition that
practitioners should explore in order to be culturally competent with the population seeking recovery.
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*a. The population seeking recovery will benefit from culturally competent practice when practitioners
seek to ask about their situations of poverty, class, and social inequalities. These three factors are
important indicators for care because it allows the practitioner to learn more about their economic status,
their economic standing prior to current situations, and the challenges of discrimination and stigma they
are experiencing as a result of their use.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Diversity Considerations
Question Type: ESS

Type: E
3. Describe the history, aim, and methodology of the harm reduction approach.
*a. The harm reduction approach does not aim to reduce harm, but to educate about the harm and risks
of substance use. It recognizes the user as part of society and educate them on safer ways of using. This
method was developed in the early 1980s after the increase in HIV/AIDS as a result of injection drug
user.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Diversity Considerations
Question Type: ESS