In contrast to young adults in general, what percentage of college students report having
abused an opioid?
a. 17.6 percent
b. 1.9 percent
c. 7.1 percent
d. 8.3 percent
Which of the following statements is true?
a. Although residential programs are less expensive, reduced insurance company
reimbursement rates result in such programs costing almost as much as outpatient
rehabilitation programs.
b. Residential treatment programs have better treatment outcomes even if the person is
in the program for a shorter period of time.
c. Although outpatient rehabilitation programs are inherently less expensive, the
insurance company reimbursement policies might make it more expensive to the
individual than residential treatment.
d. The weekly cost of either inpatient or outpatient treatment is approximately the same
since the program still has to pay staff salaries, equipment, room for the treatment
program, etc.
Women with concurrent alcohol use disorders and hepatitis C infections tend to
a. live 10 years longer than men with both conditions.
b. live 10 years less than men with both conditions.
c. be more vulnerable to amenorrhea.
d. require just as long to develop cirrhosis as a man with both conditions.
The most commonly abused illicit substance in the United States is ________.
a. methamphetamine
b. marijuana
c. nicotine
d. alcohol
What percentage of those who join AA will abstain from alcohol for the rest of their
lives?
a. 20 percent
b. 5 percent
c. 75 percent
d. 50 percent
Which of the following is NOT true of dual diagnosis clients?
a. They appear to experience a different cocaine withdrawal syndrome than other
people.
b. Cocaine abusing patients with schizophrenia are at higher risk for the development of
a movement disorder known as tardive dyskinesia.
c. They tend to seek out specific drugs, depending on their exact form of mental illness.
d. They use alcohol to self-medicate anxiety.
In North America, the demand for amphetamine (especially methamphetamine) has
been _____.
a. rapidly increasing
b. trending down
c. stable
d. doubling annually
The term addiction
a. is clearly defined in the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders.
b. is still not clearly defined.
c. is applied only to substance use disorders.
d. automatically indicates the need for rehabilitation.
Which of the following statements is NOT true, according to the definition of
intervention in your text?
a. Interventions are often supervised by a trained professional.
b. Interventions are organized by people in the addicted individual’s life.
c. Interventions are meant to break down the walls of denial in the addicted person.
d. The goal of an intervention is to talk to the addicted person about whether they think
they will consider going into treatment at some point in the future.
The term “anabolic” means ______, and the term “androgenic” means _______.
a. growth producing; femininizing
b. growth producing; masculinizing
c. femininizing; muscle building
d. masculinizing; muscle building
Humans work to
a. increase pleasure and decrease discomfort.
b. decrease pleasure and increase discomfort.
c. control sources of disruption and focus exclusively on their discomfort.
d. use personality and increase discomfort.
It has been estimated that ________ of the population of the United States is not
Hispanic.
a. 11 percent
b. 25 percent
c. 75 percent
d. 89 percent
According to your textbook, which of the following is NOT a likely consequence of
PCP abuse?
a. Period of weight gain after recovery from the drug’s effects
b. Suicidal depression following PCP abuse
c. Assaultiveness during the acute phase of PCP’s effects
d. Psychotic reaction
The concentration of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, is found to be ____
higher in the mother’s breast milk than in the mother’s blood level.
a. 1.5 times
b. 3 times
c. 4.5 times
d. 6 times
According to Motivational Interviewing, when a client presents with resistance, it is
viewed as
a. a form of denial that needs to be broken down.
b. an important element of the change process.
c. a sign that client is not appropriate for treatment.
d. a mismatch between where the client is at and the treatment approach.
When a female bee hatches but is not fed the “royal jelly,” it
a. becomes a queen and will eventually have to fight for the right to be queen by killing
the current queen bee.
b. becomes a sterile worker bee.
c. starves while still in the egg and never hatches.
d. starves to death while it is still a larvae.
Isabel had been taking Valium, a benzodiazepine, for a few years to calm her nerves and
help her sleep. She had her dosage increased by her doctor because her previous dosage
wasn”t helping her sleep at night anymore. One night, she went out with her husband
for his company’s annual Christmas party. She had never been much of a drinker, but
that evening she wanted to enjoy a few cocktails. She was very careful not to mix her
Valium with alcohol, as her doctor had warned her. Towards the end of the evening,
Isabel realized that she had had at least 5 cocktails and didn’t feel drunk at all. Which
term may best describe why this happened?
a. Cross dependence
b. Cross tolerance
c. Up-regulation
d. Co-transmission
Which of the following statements about persons who suffer from
obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is most true?
a. They apparently have no preference for a specific compound.
b. They tend to prefer CNS depressants such as the benzodiazepines.
c. They tend to prefer CNS stimulants such as methylphenidate or ephedrine.
d. They tend not to abuse chemicals at all because they fear the loss of control that
substance abuse might bring, and persons with OCD are heavily invested in control.
Anabolic steroids are classified as category ________ controlled substances.
a. I
b. II
c. III
d. IV
One of the challenges to the traditional 12-step program holds that
a. these programs place too much emphasis on the individual’s psychosocial growth.
b. the Big Book repeatedly references people who have “recovered” from alcohol
dependence, in spite of what group members often say.
c. making a lifelong committment to 12-step involvement is appropriate for all
recovering persons.
d. its emphasis on anonymity is appropriate but too strongly enforced.
Researchers believe that _______ of the HIV particles found in a person’s body are in
the CD4 cells.
a. 50-60 percent
b. 93-99 percent
c. 30-50 percent
d. virtually none
Under normal conditions, cocaine can be detected on urine toxicology tests for
a. up to 12 hours after the person’s last use of this compound.
b. 72-96 hours after the person’s last use of this compound.
c. 1-4 weeks after the person’s last use of this compound.
d. about 8 hours after the person’s last use of this compound.
Adulterants are added to illicit drugs to
a. lower costs for the producer.
b. increase profits for the distributor.
c. maintain constant drug purity levels.
d. make the adulterated drugs less attractive to rival drug dealers who might attempt to
steal them.
In the minds of many, the medicalization of marijuana is
a. justified since medical research supports this use of marijuana.
b. the same as the legalization of marijuana.
c. appropriate for the reasons approved by the federal government.
d. an excuse to make all illicit drug use legal.
MDMA
a. has a narrow “therapeutic” window, so the normal dose is close to the toxic dosage
level.
b. has no effect on sleep apnea, and might even improve sleep respiration.
c. induces better interpersonal boundaries.
d. has no effect on the individual’s perception of external reality.
According to your text, the social use of a chemical
a. is clearly inconsistent with the expectations of the person’s cultural group.
b. has an inverse relationship with the person’s state of health.
c. usually involves a period of intense substance abuse that is not acceptable to the
leaders of the social group.
d. involves rare experimental use or its occasional use in social settings.
It is believed that ______ of people with MI/CD received treatment for both disorders
in the past year.
a. 2 percent
b. 5 percent
c. 8 percent
d. 11 percent
The “AIDS latency period” has been found
a. not to exist.
b. to last longer in those who do not abuse intravenous drugs.
c. to last longer in those who acquired the infection from a sexual partner who was
infected, since intravenous drug injection was not involved.
d. to be a gender-specific phenomenon.
For most individuals, experimentation with the illicit use of drugs
a. occurs only once.
b. initiates a slow, but inevitable, advance into addiction.
c. runs a course of use that usually lasts 510 years.
d. lasts for less than a year.
A child raised in a home with an SUD may be protected from the full impact of the
SUD if there are healthy parental alternatives in the child’s life.
a. True
b. False
HVB is a
a. chronic, remitting disease that bothers the person for 6-8 months before it clears.
b. blood-borne disease.
c. virus that can infect the mother, but never the fetus as placental barriers exist to block
the virus from reaching the fetus.
d. virus known to cross the blood-brain-barrier and in extreme cases induce dementia.
In the United States, ________ of new HIV infections for men result from homosexual
relations.
a. 17 percent
b. 80 percent
c. 50 percent
d. 70 percent
Transdermal nicotine patches have been found to be _________ successful in treating
nicotine dependence.
a. minimally
b. moderately
c. extremely
d. completely not
Explain what is meant when alcohol is described as a “dirty” compound.
Answer:No answer provided.
Discuss the conflicting views regarding the possibility of an “amotivational syndrome.”
Answer:No answer provided.
Describe the potential symptoms experienced by patients undergoing alcohol
withdrawal.
Answer:No answer provided.
Describe some of the current medical uses of the amphetamines.
Answer:No answer provided.
Describe the various methods of marijuana abuse.
Answer:No answer provided.
Discuss some of the forms of viral hepatitis commonly encountered in the treatment of
people with an SUD.
Answer:No answer provided.
Define the terms effective dose and lethal dose. Explain how these might be used to
calculate the therapeutic index of a drug.
Answer:No answer provided.
Discuss some of the general issues involving pregnancy and drug/alcohol use.
Answer:No answer provided.
Is the marijuana consumed today the same as that used in the past? How has it
changed?
Answer:No answer provided.
What are some of the factors that may affect the blood alcohol level (BAL)?
Answer:No answer provided.
Describe the cycle of codependency.
Answer:No answer provided.
Discuss the relation between AIDS and neurocognitive dysfunction, including the
classification system based upon the range of deficit.
Answer:No answer provided.
Discuss some of the screening and assessment tools utilized in measuring and
evaluating drug/alcohol use in adolescents.
Answer:No answer provided.
Discuss some of the many misperceptions about substance abuse treatment and what
may contribute to it being effective.
Answer:No answer provided.
Describe the nature of inhalants and why they have not been categorically made illegal
by the government.
Answer:No answer provided.
What are the current medical uses of cocaine?
Answer:No answer provided.
Discuss the controversy surrounding methylphenidate.
Answer:No answer provided.
Describe how common items are used in the abuse of nitrites.
Answer:No answer provided.