IC&RC 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED
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✔✔CRAFFT Assessment Instrument - ✔✔Children & Adolescents under 21
Acronym for screening questions
Car
Relax
Alone
Forget
Family/friends
Trouble
✔✔Process Evaluation - ✔✔Assesses if tx was appropriate, whether
screening/assessment led to suitable tx
Whether client took advantage of recommended services available
✔✔Outcome Evaluation - ✔✔Whether client accurately assessed and benefited from tx
plan
Provides evidence of needs in drug tx (gaps)
✔✔Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) - ✔✔Caused by: Drug abuse, Medication side
effects, or exposure to a toxin
Intoxication & Withdrawal = behavioral, psychological & physiological sxs due to use or
restriction of a substance
Substance classes: caffeine, hallucinogens, alcohol, cannabis, stimulants, tobacco,
inhalants, opioids, sedatives, hypnotics & anxiolytics, and other
✔✔11 Symptoms Used to Dx SUD - ✔✔2+ must have occurred in past 12 months for dx
1. Tolerance
2. Withdrawal
3. Increased Amount
4. Inability to Control Use
5. Time & Effort to Obtain
6. Giving up Important Activities
7. Continued use despite ill effects
8. Craving
9. Inability to fulfill major roles
10. Physically harmful (use)
11. Use despite social problems
, ✔✔Level of Care: Quadrant 1 - ✔✔Quadrant 1 = Low-Level SUD and minor mental
health problems
Outpatient
✔✔Level of Care: Quadrant 2 - ✔✔Quadrant 2 = Severe mental health, low-level SUD
treated in MH system
✔✔Level of Care: Quadrant 3 - ✔✔Quadrant 3 = Severe SUD, MH low-moderate
severity
SUD tx programs
✔✔Level of Care: Quadrant 4 - ✔✔Quadrant 4 = Intensive usually residential
Patients w/severe psychiatric disorder and severe SUD
Patients w/severe SUD and severe MH
✔✔4-Step Grant Process from SAMHSA - ✔✔1. Register for Data University Numbering
System (DUNS) #
2. Register w/the System for Award Management (SAM)
3. Register w/grants.gov as Authorized Organization Representative (AOR)
4. Register w/eRA Commons
✔✔Agonists - ✔✔drugs which mimic the activity of neurotransmitters, used to alleviate
withdrawal
e.g. methadone
✔✔Antagonists - ✔✔drugs that block the function of a neurotransmitter
✔✔Antidipsotropics - ✔✔Cause adverse reactions to consumption of drugs of abuse
e.g. Antabuse
✔✔Psychotropics - ✔✔Control sxs associated w/withdrawal
e.g. Anxiolytics, antipsychotics, antidepressants
✔✔4 Stages of Recovery - ✔✔1. Initiation = makes commitment to control addiction,
enters tx, or tries to control w/out help
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✔✔CRAFFT Assessment Instrument - ✔✔Children & Adolescents under 21
Acronym for screening questions
Car
Relax
Alone
Forget
Family/friends
Trouble
✔✔Process Evaluation - ✔✔Assesses if tx was appropriate, whether
screening/assessment led to suitable tx
Whether client took advantage of recommended services available
✔✔Outcome Evaluation - ✔✔Whether client accurately assessed and benefited from tx
plan
Provides evidence of needs in drug tx (gaps)
✔✔Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) - ✔✔Caused by: Drug abuse, Medication side
effects, or exposure to a toxin
Intoxication & Withdrawal = behavioral, psychological & physiological sxs due to use or
restriction of a substance
Substance classes: caffeine, hallucinogens, alcohol, cannabis, stimulants, tobacco,
inhalants, opioids, sedatives, hypnotics & anxiolytics, and other
✔✔11 Symptoms Used to Dx SUD - ✔✔2+ must have occurred in past 12 months for dx
1. Tolerance
2. Withdrawal
3. Increased Amount
4. Inability to Control Use
5. Time & Effort to Obtain
6. Giving up Important Activities
7. Continued use despite ill effects
8. Craving
9. Inability to fulfill major roles
10. Physically harmful (use)
11. Use despite social problems
, ✔✔Level of Care: Quadrant 1 - ✔✔Quadrant 1 = Low-Level SUD and minor mental
health problems
Outpatient
✔✔Level of Care: Quadrant 2 - ✔✔Quadrant 2 = Severe mental health, low-level SUD
treated in MH system
✔✔Level of Care: Quadrant 3 - ✔✔Quadrant 3 = Severe SUD, MH low-moderate
severity
SUD tx programs
✔✔Level of Care: Quadrant 4 - ✔✔Quadrant 4 = Intensive usually residential
Patients w/severe psychiatric disorder and severe SUD
Patients w/severe SUD and severe MH
✔✔4-Step Grant Process from SAMHSA - ✔✔1. Register for Data University Numbering
System (DUNS) #
2. Register w/the System for Award Management (SAM)
3. Register w/grants.gov as Authorized Organization Representative (AOR)
4. Register w/eRA Commons
✔✔Agonists - ✔✔drugs which mimic the activity of neurotransmitters, used to alleviate
withdrawal
e.g. methadone
✔✔Antagonists - ✔✔drugs that block the function of a neurotransmitter
✔✔Antidipsotropics - ✔✔Cause adverse reactions to consumption of drugs of abuse
e.g. Antabuse
✔✔Psychotropics - ✔✔Control sxs associated w/withdrawal
e.g. Anxiolytics, antipsychotics, antidepressants
✔✔4 Stages of Recovery - ✔✔1. Initiation = makes commitment to control addiction,
enters tx, or tries to control w/out help
