Exam 6: Substance Abuse

Typical warning signs of substance abuse in health care providers include? (Select all that apply.) Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.

Due to cross-tolerance, patients who have developed tolerance to alcohol will show tolerance to other CNS depressants. This would mean:

Marijuana typically causes both physical and psychological dependence.

Which drugs were once used therapeutically and are now illegal because of a high potential for abuse? (Select all that apply.) Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.

With psychological dependence, uncomfortable symptoms, known as withdrawal syndrome, occur when use of the agent is stopped.

Which profession, of the ones listed below, is more prone to alcohol or substance abuse?

When a patient needs less and less of a drug to feel the effects, the patient has developed tolerance to the drug.

Overdosing on barbiturates or benzodiazepines is usually fatal.

Claims of chronic pain with uncertain etiology, referred to as drug seeking behavior, is a typical feature indicating an opioid drug addiction.

The benefits of the MMTP would include? (Select all that apply.) Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.

The pharmacy technician is teaching about illegal street drugs. Which definition would the technician include in the teaching plan?

Hallucinogens include ecstasy, heroin, LSD, and magic mushrooms.

A pharmacy technician suspects that her co-worker is experiencing substance abuse. Which symptom would indicate abuse from an opioid?

Addiction is the progressive and chronic abuse of a substance despite serious health and social consequences.

Defend the statement: Most drugs abused in Canada are illegal substances.

Addiction to opioids can occur rapidly, and withdrawal can produce intense symptoms.

What is the goal of Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programs (MMTP) in Canada?

Any prescriber in Canada may prescribe methadone.

The pharmacy technician is preparing to teach a patient about addiction, dependence, and withdrawal. The pharmacy technician asks the patient, "What is the progressive and chronic abuse of a substance caused by an intense craving and an overwhelming desire to continue using the substance, even if there are obvious negative economic, physical, or social consequences?" Which answer, by the patient, is appropriate?

With chronic substance abuse, patients will often associate their conditions and surroundings- including social contacts with other users-with use of the drug. Removing themselves from these conditions or surroundings is referred to as conditioned withdrawal.