Illinois CADC Exam 2026 Exam
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Understanding Addiction and Recovery - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Addiction is a
primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related
circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological,
psychological, social and spiritual manifestations. This is reflected in an
individual pathologically pursuing reward and/or relief by substance use
and other behaviors. Addiction is characterized by a diminished recognition
,of significant problems with one's behaviors. (ASAM: American Society of
Addiction Medicine)
Factors that Influence Addiction - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Genetic, Home & Family,
Peer & School; Early Use; Method of Administration; Fundamental changes
in the Brain.
Theories of Causation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Moral Model; Disease Model (E.M.
Jellinek 1960); Genetic Model; Cultural Model; Blended Model.
Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Exist along a
continuum.
Drugs of Abuse - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Alcohol is the most frequently abused
substance. Drugs obtained through prescriptions or stolen from pharmacies
is a serious problem.
Alcohol - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Alcohol is classified as a sedative-hypnotic, thus a
central nervous system depressant. Alcohol has eights stages of effect:
sub-clinical, euphoria, excitement; excitement (2); excitement/confusion;
confusion/stupor;coma and death Catholic University of America 2011)
Alcohol - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔While it is trues that men are more likely to drink
alcohol and in greater amounts, women have a higher risk of developing
,problems from alcohol consumption. This is because women generally
have less water than men's bodies. Because alcohol mixes with body
water, a given amount of alcohol is less diluted in a woman's body than in a
man's. Women become more impaired by alcohol's effects and are more
susceptible to alcohol-related organ damage.
Cannabis (Marijuana) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Contrary to popular belief, marijuana
is addictive.
Prescription Drugs - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Past year abuse of prescription pain
killers now ranks second-only behind marijuana- as the nations's most
prevalent drug problem.
The classes of prescription drugs most commonly abused: - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Opioid pain relievers such as Vicodin or Oxycontin; stimulants for
treating ADHD such as Adderall, Concerta or Ritalin and Cental Nervous
System depressants for relieving anxiety such as Valium and Xanax.
Prescription Drugs - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔More people die from overdoses of
prescription opioids than from all other drugs combined, including heroine
and cocaine (Centers for Disease Control, 2011).
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, Withdrawal from Drugs of Abuse - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Central to the role of
nearly all drugs taht are commonly abused to prodeuce euphoria is the
nucleus accumbens, the brain's "pleasure center".
Withdrawal from Drugs of Abuse - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Attempting to give up a
benzodiazepine or alcohol dependency can result in seizures and worse if
not carried out properly.
Recovery - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Recovery is a process of change whereby
individual's improve their health and wellness, to live a self-directed life,
and strive to reach their full potential (SAMHSA, 2014)
A New Recovery Paradigm - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔There has been a shift in
traditional clinical practice toward new priorities of supporting the client in
working toward self-defined goals and taking responsibility for their own life.
The new recovery movement affirms the very real potential for permanent,
personal resolution of behavioral health problems.
Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔ROSCs are a model
of sustained recovery management (RM). The RM model wraps traditional
interventions in a continuum of recovery support services spanning the pre-
recovery, recovery initiation and stabilization, and recovery maintenance
Questions and Correct Answers |
New Update
Understanding Addiction and Recovery - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Addiction is a
primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related
circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological,
psychological, social and spiritual manifestations. This is reflected in an
individual pathologically pursuing reward and/or relief by substance use
and other behaviors. Addiction is characterized by a diminished recognition
,of significant problems with one's behaviors. (ASAM: American Society of
Addiction Medicine)
Factors that Influence Addiction - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Genetic, Home & Family,
Peer & School; Early Use; Method of Administration; Fundamental changes
in the Brain.
Theories of Causation - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Moral Model; Disease Model (E.M.
Jellinek 1960); Genetic Model; Cultural Model; Blended Model.
Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Exist along a
continuum.
Drugs of Abuse - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Alcohol is the most frequently abused
substance. Drugs obtained through prescriptions or stolen from pharmacies
is a serious problem.
Alcohol - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Alcohol is classified as a sedative-hypnotic, thus a
central nervous system depressant. Alcohol has eights stages of effect:
sub-clinical, euphoria, excitement; excitement (2); excitement/confusion;
confusion/stupor;coma and death Catholic University of America 2011)
Alcohol - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔While it is trues that men are more likely to drink
alcohol and in greater amounts, women have a higher risk of developing
,problems from alcohol consumption. This is because women generally
have less water than men's bodies. Because alcohol mixes with body
water, a given amount of alcohol is less diluted in a woman's body than in a
man's. Women become more impaired by alcohol's effects and are more
susceptible to alcohol-related organ damage.
Cannabis (Marijuana) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Contrary to popular belief, marijuana
is addictive.
Prescription Drugs - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Past year abuse of prescription pain
killers now ranks second-only behind marijuana- as the nations's most
prevalent drug problem.
The classes of prescription drugs most commonly abused: - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Opioid pain relievers such as Vicodin or Oxycontin; stimulants for
treating ADHD such as Adderall, Concerta or Ritalin and Cental Nervous
System depressants for relieving anxiety such as Valium and Xanax.
Prescription Drugs - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔More people die from overdoses of
prescription opioids than from all other drugs combined, including heroine
and cocaine (Centers for Disease Control, 2011).
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COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2026. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, Withdrawal from Drugs of Abuse - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Central to the role of
nearly all drugs taht are commonly abused to prodeuce euphoria is the
nucleus accumbens, the brain's "pleasure center".
Withdrawal from Drugs of Abuse - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Attempting to give up a
benzodiazepine or alcohol dependency can result in seizures and worse if
not carried out properly.
Recovery - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Recovery is a process of change whereby
individual's improve their health and wellness, to live a self-directed life,
and strive to reach their full potential (SAMHSA, 2014)
A New Recovery Paradigm - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔There has been a shift in
traditional clinical practice toward new priorities of supporting the client in
working toward self-defined goals and taking responsibility for their own life.
The new recovery movement affirms the very real potential for permanent,
personal resolution of behavioral health problems.
Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔ROSCs are a model
of sustained recovery management (RM). The RM model wraps traditional
interventions in a continuum of recovery support services spanning the pre-
recovery, recovery initiation and stabilization, and recovery maintenance
