In Support of the Assertion That Addiction Is a Disease

question 42

Multiple Choice

In support of the assertion that addiction is a disease, Wollschlaeger (2007) indicates that ____.

• A) recovering alcoholics must completely abstain from drinking because any consumption will set off the disease process
• B) under the right conditions, alcoholics can learn to limit their drinking to appropriate levels
• C) controlled drinking may work for some alcohol abusers
• D) alcoholics have the ability to control only some aspects of what causes the diseas e

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Definitions:

Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs)

Limits (quotas) set by a government or a fisheries commission on the total number or total weight of a species that an individual fisher can harvest during some particular time period; fishers can sell (transfer) the right to use all or part of their respective individual quotas to other fishers.

Tragedy of the Commons

A situation in which individuals act according to their own self-interest regarding a shared resource, depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action.

Economic Growth

An increase in the capacity of an economy to produce goods and services, compared from one period of time to another.

Low Birthrates

A situation in a population where the number of births is significantly lower than the global average or the replacement level.