1.  What are some of the principles of effective treatment for substance abuse and dependence? 

2.  Could the public associate a valuable medicinal agent (i.e., a medicine)  with the dark world of doping and performance-enhancing drugs? Even  worse, could some people accuse these companies of developing drugs that  could be misused by athletes as a way of enhancing sales? Discuss the  implications. 

3.  What are the behavioral symptoms of marijuana use? 

4.  Discuss sleep aids and cough-and-cold remedies as some of the other classes of over-the-counter drugs. 

5.  Relate the biomedical model of mental illness to the development of psychiatric drugs. 

6.  Discuss the components of school-based substance-abuse prevention programs that have worked in the past 

7.  Discuss the importance of different sociocultural filters for effective substance-abuse prevention. 

8.  Examine the importance of family systems in substance-abuse prevention attempts. 

9.   Analyze the challenges in designing effective substance-abuse treatment programs.
 

10.  Based on our current research, who is at greatest risk for alcohol abuse or dependence?