An addiction treatment specialist is working with a client to reduce or eliminate the client’s dependence on alcohol. The specialist decides that a three-part approach is required that changes the clients risk-taking attitudes, substitutes high-strength beer with low-strength beer, and gets the client to forego their usual alcohol-friendly hang-outs in favour of family-oriented environments. Such an approach to addiction treatment reflects which model? Question 6Select one:The Biological ModelThe Moral ModelThe Public Health ModelThe Spiritual Model

Alcoholic Anonymous (AA) is an addiction treatment approach that assumes dependence is predominantly a disease developed as a result of faltering (or loss of) belief in a ‘higher power’. Addiction treatment programmes like the AA reflect which theory/model of substance use?Question 3Select one:The Public Health ModelThe Spiritual ModelThe Biological ModelThe Moral Model

People who advocate for the Moral Model of addiction generally assume that substance use is a volitional act undertaken by an agent who knows (or should know) that dependence and other adverse consequences may follow. Many addiction treatment practitioners regard the moral model as: Question 2Select one:Anachronistic, stigmatizing, and simplistic.The new direction for current drug and addictions policy.An acceptable basis for methadone-maintenance approaches.Similar to the Model of Classical Conditioning.

"Jill said that her biological relatives, grandmother, her grandmother’s sister, her mother, and her aunt were all heavy-drinkers, never treated."Re-read the quote above from Hammer et al (2012). Now answer this question:Which of the models of substance misuse - which we covered in the first reading this week – best reflects the role in this quote that families seem to be playing in the life of some of the substance misusers?Question 7Select one:The Moral ModelPsychological ModelsThe Public Health ModelFamily Systems Models

The Spiritual approach in treatment of drug dependence makes use of what as a source of inspiration to change drug dependents and looks at drug abuse as a sin.*1 pointBible TeachingsMeditationRole ModelingPsychiatric Sessions

In Howard et al (2013) the belief that a genetic predisposition is responsible for addiction - or at least plays a role in addiction - reflects three different models of addiction which are: Question 9Select one:The Psychological model, the Neurocognitive model and the Immunological ModelThe Disease Model, the Public Health Model and the Neurocognitive modelThe Disease Model, the Biological Model and the Public Health ModelThe Biological Model, the Psychological Model and the Neurocognitive model