What are the key implications for brain development that occurs during adolescence? How does this ...

What are the key implications for brain development that occurs during adolescence? How does this brain development put an adolescent at risk for abusing substances?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Regina, a 60-year-old widow, is most likely to use which means of attempting suicide?
 
  a. a gun c. sleeping pills
  b. a knife d. hanging

Question 3

Describe and give examples of these terms: use, experimental substance use, social substance use and abuse.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 4

A mental health professional wanting to reduce the risk of suicide in a client who uses alcohol would probably say, ____.
 
  a. Stop drinking. Alcohol constricts your thinking, and that is dangerous when it comes to suicide.
  b. If you stop drinking suddenly, you will experience alcohol myopia, a dangerous condition.
  c. Alcohol myopia is a pleasant state that will probably reduce your likelihood of committing suicide.
  d. I'm not worried about your drinking because you are less likely to take your life when intoxicated than when sober.