Drugs and Alcohol Abuse Questionnaire

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Your Role (caseworker, foster child, parent, GAL, Probation Oficer, etc.):

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1) What is Al-Anon?

A group for alcoholics and drug addicts to attend.
A group for sponsors of alcoholics and drug addicts to attend.
A group for those who live with alcoholics and drug addicts.

2) Why does the speaker say that her son is "chemically dependent"?
She doesn't want to say that he is an alcoholic.
She has seen that adolescents who are alcoholics experiment with drugs also.
Her son is not an alcoholic, but rather a drug addict.
All of the above.

3) Are "Tough love" and "confrontation" terms she has heard in Al-Anon meetings?
Yes.
No.

4) True or False:
ODAT says that "When I am desperate enough to ask for help, I will not expect it to come in the form of easy solutions.".

True
False

5)The Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division of the Colorado Department of Health treat approximately how many people through their programs?
50,000
38,000
3,800
None of the above

6) The Prevention/Intervention Services Program awards 60 crontracts annually to:
1. Schools 2. Community programs 3. Parent groups 4. Jails for their detox chambers.

Numbers 1 and 3
Number 4
Numbers 1, 2, and 3
None of the above.

7) The Alcohol and Drug Driving Safety Program has about 75 alcohol and drug abuse evaluators who work within probation departments. these evaluators must asses the extent of the substance abuse of how many convicted drunk drivers each year?
7,000
38,000
28,000
None of the above.

8) True or False:
ADAD manages the Colorado State Employee Assistance Program, offering confidental counseling on a short term basis or referral program..

True
False

9) The stages in a Co-Dependent family are:

Denial, Barganing and control, Anger, Depression, Crisis and Confrontation.
Barganing and control, Anger, and Depression.
Confrontation, Barganing and Anger.
None of the above.

10) Which of the questions below are asked to by doctors to parents to explore the possibility of drug or alcohol addiction?

i)Have you noticed changes in your teenager's peer group?
ii)Do you love your child?
iii)Do you think your child's peer group is possibly drug or alcohol users?
iv) Is your child is above average in school testing?

i, ii, iii.
ii only.
i, iii only.
i, ii only

11) True or False:
Purposely intervening in a family argument your child may be having with his or her spouse over drinking is a type of enabling action.


True
False
12) True or False:
Children as young as 9 are using drugs.

True
False

13) True or False
The most critical and devastating problem facing the American People today is drug abuse.

True
False

14) True or False
THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, attacks fatty areas in the body. These areas includ the brain and sexual glands.

True
False

15) True or False:

Al-Ateen is a group, structured like Al-Anon, for teenagers with alcoholic parents.

True
False


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