Please be sure to fully answer each of these questions in complete sentences. Please note that in answering these questions you are showing me that you not only read the text, but that you understood it. Consequently, your answers should be comprehensive and detailed.

1.  Define what a drug is and the differences between drug abuse and addiction.  Do you know anyone that would fit the definition of having a drug addiction?  Be sure to explain.  

2.  The text states that several factors seem to be related to whether, how much, and in what ways an individual uses alcohol and becomes an alcoholic.  These factors include genetics, sex, and age.  Summarize each of these factors.  

3.  Summarize two of the treatment of alcoholism that the textbook describes.    

4.  After watching the video (Understanding the Opioid Epidemic), what are two main reasons for our current opioid epidemic?  

5.  What are two solutions you think should be implemented to help control our current opioid epidemic?