665 Exam 3 Final Test Questions and
All Correct Answers 2025-2026
Updated.
2-3 - Answer How many symptoms for mild substance disorder?
4-5 - Answer How many symptoms for moderate substance disorder?
6+ - Answer How many symptoms for severe substance disorder?
Severe alcohol intoxication - Answer What diagnosis do they have? Nervous system
depression (sleepiness, coma, lethargy, and decreased response to pain).
Withdrawal accompanied by pain
Digestive problems that include vomiting, bleeding, and dehydration
Slow or absent breathing
Grand mal seizures
Delirium tremens (DTs)
Disturbances of vision, mental confusion, and muscular incoordination
Disinterested behavior and loss of memory
Can cause alcoholic ketoacidosis, alcoholic hypoglycemia, fluid and electrolyte imbalance,
Wernicke's encephalopathy, acute effects on heart, acute GI effects, acute alcoholic myopathy,
trauma, and associated other substance poisoning.
Misuse - Answer Patient is prescribed Norco to take one pill every four hours but he takes 10
pills every hour. Patient is displaying?
guidelines - Answer The use of prescription drugs in a manner other than directed by
medical _____________ is misuse
Abuse - Answer A maladaptive pattern of substance use leading to clinically significant
impairment or distress
Abuse - Answer Dysfunction; Using the drug beyond the way it's prescribed for
1, 12 - Answer Abuse is manifested by: ____ or more of the following occurring over a ____
month period:
, Recurrent substance use resulting in a failure to fulfill major obligations at work, school, or
home
Recurrent substance use in situations in which it is physically hazardous
Recurrent substance related legal problems
Continued substance use despite persistent or recurrent social or interpersonal problems.
failure to fulfill, hazardous - Answer Manifested by one or more of the following occurring
over a 12 month period:
-Recurrent substance use resulting in a _________ ______ __________ major obligations at
work, school, or home
-Recurrent substance use in situations in which it is physically ___________.
-Recurrent substance related legal problems
-Continued substance use despite persistent or recurrent social or interpersonal problems.
craving, withdrawal - Answer 3 major features of abuse: compulsive intake, _____________,
and ______________.
Cross-tolerance - Answer Valium, barbiturates, alcohol since they act on similar receptors of
the brain.
The ability of one drug to be substituted for another drug that produces the same physiological
and psychological effects
Tolerance - Answer Where you need to keep using more and more to get the same effect.
Commonly occurs with benzos, alcohol, opioids, really all substances!
Detoxification - Answer Abrupt cessation of alcohol intake for an individual that has had
dependence.
Often coupled with a substitution of drugs that have a similar effect.
If stop opioids, take buprenorphine.
If stop taking alcohol, take campral.
It's taking the toxins out of the body.
Many facilities have protocols for this
acute - Answer Detox helps manage _________ withdrawal symptoms
Withdrawal - Answer More of a substance specific syndrome where the body goes through a
process once the repeated drug or substance is no longer being used or if there's a reduction in
use.
All Correct Answers 2025-2026
Updated.
2-3 - Answer How many symptoms for mild substance disorder?
4-5 - Answer How many symptoms for moderate substance disorder?
6+ - Answer How many symptoms for severe substance disorder?
Severe alcohol intoxication - Answer What diagnosis do they have? Nervous system
depression (sleepiness, coma, lethargy, and decreased response to pain).
Withdrawal accompanied by pain
Digestive problems that include vomiting, bleeding, and dehydration
Slow or absent breathing
Grand mal seizures
Delirium tremens (DTs)
Disturbances of vision, mental confusion, and muscular incoordination
Disinterested behavior and loss of memory
Can cause alcoholic ketoacidosis, alcoholic hypoglycemia, fluid and electrolyte imbalance,
Wernicke's encephalopathy, acute effects on heart, acute GI effects, acute alcoholic myopathy,
trauma, and associated other substance poisoning.
Misuse - Answer Patient is prescribed Norco to take one pill every four hours but he takes 10
pills every hour. Patient is displaying?
guidelines - Answer The use of prescription drugs in a manner other than directed by
medical _____________ is misuse
Abuse - Answer A maladaptive pattern of substance use leading to clinically significant
impairment or distress
Abuse - Answer Dysfunction; Using the drug beyond the way it's prescribed for
1, 12 - Answer Abuse is manifested by: ____ or more of the following occurring over a ____
month period:
, Recurrent substance use resulting in a failure to fulfill major obligations at work, school, or
home
Recurrent substance use in situations in which it is physically hazardous
Recurrent substance related legal problems
Continued substance use despite persistent or recurrent social or interpersonal problems.
failure to fulfill, hazardous - Answer Manifested by one or more of the following occurring
over a 12 month period:
-Recurrent substance use resulting in a _________ ______ __________ major obligations at
work, school, or home
-Recurrent substance use in situations in which it is physically ___________.
-Recurrent substance related legal problems
-Continued substance use despite persistent or recurrent social or interpersonal problems.
craving, withdrawal - Answer 3 major features of abuse: compulsive intake, _____________,
and ______________.
Cross-tolerance - Answer Valium, barbiturates, alcohol since they act on similar receptors of
the brain.
The ability of one drug to be substituted for another drug that produces the same physiological
and psychological effects
Tolerance - Answer Where you need to keep using more and more to get the same effect.
Commonly occurs with benzos, alcohol, opioids, really all substances!
Detoxification - Answer Abrupt cessation of alcohol intake for an individual that has had
dependence.
Often coupled with a substitution of drugs that have a similar effect.
If stop opioids, take buprenorphine.
If stop taking alcohol, take campral.
It's taking the toxins out of the body.
Many facilities have protocols for this
acute - Answer Detox helps manage _________ withdrawal symptoms
Withdrawal - Answer More of a substance specific syndrome where the body goes through a
process once the repeated drug or substance is no longer being used or if there's a reduction in
use.
