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Public health models address drug and alcohol abuse often focus on interventions. Using your knowledge of evidence-based practice in the nursing care of populations most at risk for substance abuse disease, what are public health programs that have been e
 
  lowering rates of HIV infection among injection drug users in both developed and developing countries?
   1. 12-step self-help groups
   2. Family and couples therapy
   3. Opioid substitution treatment
   4. Syringe exchange programs
  A) 1, 2
  B) 1, 3
  C) 2, 4
  D) 3, 4

Question 2

Public health models address drug and alcohol abuse often focus on interventions. Using your knowledge of opioid substance treatment,
 
  what medication in prescribed doses is administered to injection drug users in programs administered by the government?
  A) Buprenorphine and methadone
  B) Morphine and methadone
  C) Buprenorphine and codeine
  D) Codeine and morphine



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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

A



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