ELITE COMPREHENSIVE
Clinical Toxicology and Poison
Management Examination Test
Comprehensive Toxicology Practice
||Questions and Answers
Spring Examination May 2026
1. Substance abuse is MOST accurately defined as:
A. knowingly selling illicit drugs in order to buy more drugs.
B. willfully using a therapeutic drug to treat a medical illness.
C. unwillingly and unknowingly consuming drugs or alcohol.
D. knowingly misusing a substance to produce a desired effect.
✓ D
2. The EMT's primary responsibility to the patient who has been poisoned is to:
A. administer the appropriate antidote.
B. recognize that a poisoning occurred.
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C. administer 25 g of activated charcoal.
, D. contact poison control immediately.
✓ B
3. Heroin is an example of a(n):
A. opioid.
B. hypnotic.
C. cholinergic.
D. sympathomimetic.
✓ A
4. Hypotension, hypoventilation, and pinpoint pupils would be expected following an
overdose of:
A. ecstasy.
B. oxycodone (Percocet).
C. amphetamine sulfate (Benzedrine).
D. crack cocaine.
✓ B
5. Signs and symptoms of a sympathomimetic drug overdose include:
A. sedation.
B. tachycardia.
C. hypotension.
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D. slurred speech.
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B
, 6. Which of the following drugs is NOT a sedative-hypnotic?
A. secobarbital (Seconal)
B. diazepam (Valium)
C. cocaine
D. flunitrazepam (Rohypnol)
✓ C
7. Your paramedic partner administers atropine to a 49-year-old male with bradycardia.
Which of the following side effects would you expect the patient to experience?
A. pupillary constriction
B. excessive lacrimation
C. a fall in blood pressure
D. dry mucous membranes
✓ D
8. Which of the following questions would be of LEAST pertinence during the initial
questioning of a patient who ingested a substance?
A. How much of the substance was taken?
B. How long ago was it taken?
C. What type of substance was taken?
D. Why was the substance ingested?
✓ D
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Clinical Toxicology and Poison
Management Examination Test
Comprehensive Toxicology Practice
||Questions and Answers
Spring Examination May 2026
1. Substance abuse is MOST accurately defined as:
A. knowingly selling illicit drugs in order to buy more drugs.
B. willfully using a therapeutic drug to treat a medical illness.
C. unwillingly and unknowingly consuming drugs or alcohol.
D. knowingly misusing a substance to produce a desired effect.
✓ D
2. The EMT's primary responsibility to the patient who has been poisoned is to:
A. administer the appropriate antidote.
B. recognize that a poisoning occurred.
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C. administer 25 g of activated charcoal.
, D. contact poison control immediately.
✓ B
3. Heroin is an example of a(n):
A. opioid.
B. hypnotic.
C. cholinergic.
D. sympathomimetic.
✓ A
4. Hypotension, hypoventilation, and pinpoint pupils would be expected following an
overdose of:
A. ecstasy.
B. oxycodone (Percocet).
C. amphetamine sulfate (Benzedrine).
D. crack cocaine.
✓ B
5. Signs and symptoms of a sympathomimetic drug overdose include:
A. sedation.
B. tachycardia.
C. hypotension.
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D. slurred speech.
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B
, 6. Which of the following drugs is NOT a sedative-hypnotic?
A. secobarbital (Seconal)
B. diazepam (Valium)
C. cocaine
D. flunitrazepam (Rohypnol)
✓ C
7. Your paramedic partner administers atropine to a 49-year-old male with bradycardia.
Which of the following side effects would you expect the patient to experience?
A. pupillary constriction
B. excessive lacrimation
C. a fall in blood pressure
D. dry mucous membranes
✓ D
8. Which of the following questions would be of LEAST pertinence during the initial
questioning of a patient who ingested a substance?
A. How much of the substance was taken?
B. How long ago was it taken?
C. What type of substance was taken?
D. Why was the substance ingested?
✓ D
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