Describe how substance use behaviors repudiate middle-class values.
What will be an ideal response?
Drug subcultures have been established and maintained as a method of “turning their backs” on establishment values. Individuals who use drugs desire to deviate from traditional values and create their own culture that allows and cherishes a different lifestyle. Given the punitive stance toward alcohol and drug abuse in society, those who wish to rebel and do things “against the grain” of normal society.
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Which statement is true?
A. All psychoactive drugs produce dependence. B. Some psychoactive drugs produce dependence. C. Only illicit psychoactive drugs produce dependence. D. All dependence-producing drugs are illicit.
Ah Yan was unable to identify any exceptions
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The confrontational response tends not to be useful in getting clients to think about
discrepancies in their communications. Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The “holding” environment is mainly a part of which type of therapy?
a) Psychoanalytic/relational therapy b) Cognitive behavioral therapy c) Systems therapy d) Family of origin therapy e) None of the above f) All of the above