1) Analyze the challenges in designing effective substance-abuse treatment programs
2) Relate the biomedical model of mental illness to the development of psychiatric drugs
3) Discuss the importance of different sociocultural filters for effective substance abuse prevention.
4) Examine the importance of family systems in substance abuse prevention attempts.
5) Could the public associate a valuable medicinal agent (i.e a medicine) with the dark world of doping and performance and 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.
6) Discuss the phenomenon of dependence, acute toxicity, and some medical applications of caffeine.
7) Discuss the components of school based substance abuse prevention ptograms that have worked in the past
8) Describe the biopsychosocial model of substance abuse treatment
9) Discuss sleep aids and cough and cold remedies as some of the other classes of over the counter drugs.
10) Describe and eloborate on the present day concerns about gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB)