1. What are some of the principles of effective treatment for substance abuse and dependence?
2. 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 that could be misused by athletes as a way of enhancing sales? Discuss the implications.
3. What are the behavioral symptoms of marijuana use?
4. Discuss sleep aids and cough-and-cold remedies as some of the other classes of over-the-counter drugs.
5. Relate the biomedical model of mental illness to the development of psychiatric drugs.
6. Discuss the components of school-based substance-abuse prevention programs that have worked in the past
7. Discuss the importance of different sociocultural filters for effective substance-abuse prevention.
8. Examine the importance of family systems in substance-abuse prevention attempts.
9. Analyze the challenges in designing effective substance-abuse treatment programs.
10. Based on our current research, who is at greatest risk for alcohol abuse or dependence?