Which social factor has the greatest impact on the changing nature of alcohol abuse treatment?
a. Development of new pharmaceutical treatment options
b. Dramatic increase of alcoholism among young adult males
c. Raising cost of both inpatient and outpatient treatment programs
d. Women's substance abuse only recently acknowledge by society
ANS: D
The existence of an alcohol abuse problem among women has only been recently recognized and this has dramatically affected treatments and services being provided. Although the oth-er options are true, they do not have the impact on treatment modalities as much as the cor-rect option.
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