CAADC REVISION EXAMS 2025/2026 ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔The synthic opioid is the only long lasting full opioids agonist approved for opioid
pharmacotherapy at this time. - ✔✔Methadone
✔✔Naloxone vs naltrexone - ✔✔Narcan-opioids antagonist and Naltrexone, a short
acting opiate/alcohol blocking agent has been used for the last 30 years.
✔✔Suboxone contains - ✔✔A combination of buprenorphine(is opioid medication)and
naloxone(blocks the effects of opioid medication.. it treats naracotic (opiate)abdication.
✔✔Narcotics - ✔✔drugs that get rid of pain and dull the senses. They opioid,. They
relieve anxiety,
✔✔is an extended-release, injectable form of naltrexone. It is a non-addictive opiate
antagonist - ✔✔Vivitrol
✔✔Post acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS)occurs because - ✔✔Brain chemistry is
gradually return to normal . As your brain improves the levels of your brain chemicals
fluctuate as they approach the new equilibrium causing post-acute withdrawal
symptoms.
✔✔A needle and syringe programme (NSP), syringe-exchange programme (SEP), or
needle exchange program (NEP) - ✔✔is a social service that allows injecting drug users
(IDUs) to obtain hypodermic needles and associated paraphernalia at little or no cost. It
is based on the philosophy of harm reduction that attempts to reduce the risk factors for
diseases such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis. While NSPs provide most or all equipment
free of charge, exchange programmes require service users to return used syringes to
receive an equal number of new syringes.[1]
✔✔MAT Program - ✔✔Medical assisted treatment.
✔✔Privileged - ✔✔Is a legal obligation.
✔✔Laam - ✔✔LAAM (Levomethadyl acetate) works very much like methadone. LAAM
and methadone are both synthetic opiates, and when given to opiate-dependent drug
users, they both take away feelings of withdrawal and drug cravings. They also both
block opiate receptors, limiting the effects of other opiate drugs.
LAAM and methadone are both currently available for the treatment of opiate addiction.
LAAM lasts longer and can be taken on alternate days, while methadone must be taken
daily.
, LAAM cannot, however, be given in take-home doses.
LAAM was introduced at methadone clinics in the 1980s. With the rise in HIV/AIDS,
health officials realized that they could reduce the transmission of the disease and
provide essential services through methadone and methadone clinic
✔✔Which drug is used for clients with a long history of Chronic history of alcoholism -
✔✔Disulfiram
✔✔When withdrawing from short-acting barbiturates, which withdrawal symptoms are
observable at both 8-12 hours and 2-3 days of abstinence - ✔✔They can cause
tremulousness(shakiness) and agitation
✔✔Barbiturates - ✔✔depressant drugs that have a sedative effects . Is a drug that acts
as a central nervous system depressant, and can therefore produce a wide spectrum of
effects, from mild sedation to total anesthesia. They are also effective as anxiolytics,
hypnotics, and anticonvulsants.
✔✔abscess - ✔✔collection of pus
✔✔Amphetamines - ✔✔also known as speed, is a drug that stimulates the central
nervous system. A client that has non-healing ulcers, abscesses, brittles fingernails and
bruxism(teeth grinding), would used the drug.
✔✔are ICE, speed, crystal meth, meth, whip, goey, shards, rock, uppers, whizz and
dexies.of drugs that increase the activity of certain chemicals in the brain and are
classed as stimulant drugs. - ✔✔amphetamine
✔✔What was the crisis in this case - ✔✔The client wanted to leave treatment because
of his work schedule .
✔✔The primary ethical issues in this case - ✔✔The counselor and client were planning
to carpool to after care.
✔✔Revia and Vivitrol - ✔✔Aka : naltrexone
✔✔should not be used by persons with acute hepatitis or liver failure, or those with
recent opioid use (typically 7-10 days). - ✔✔naltrexone
✔✔Oral naltrexone(revia-everyday which last hours or vitriol-monthly, which lasts
longer. - ✔✔Client that has dreams or smell alcohol and and has made efforts to stop
should use this method not the extended release injectable one.
✔✔Buprenorphine is - ✔✔different from other opioids in that it is a partial opioid agonist.
QUESTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔The synthic opioid is the only long lasting full opioids agonist approved for opioid
pharmacotherapy at this time. - ✔✔Methadone
✔✔Naloxone vs naltrexone - ✔✔Narcan-opioids antagonist and Naltrexone, a short
acting opiate/alcohol blocking agent has been used for the last 30 years.
✔✔Suboxone contains - ✔✔A combination of buprenorphine(is opioid medication)and
naloxone(blocks the effects of opioid medication.. it treats naracotic (opiate)abdication.
✔✔Narcotics - ✔✔drugs that get rid of pain and dull the senses. They opioid,. They
relieve anxiety,
✔✔is an extended-release, injectable form of naltrexone. It is a non-addictive opiate
antagonist - ✔✔Vivitrol
✔✔Post acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS)occurs because - ✔✔Brain chemistry is
gradually return to normal . As your brain improves the levels of your brain chemicals
fluctuate as they approach the new equilibrium causing post-acute withdrawal
symptoms.
✔✔A needle and syringe programme (NSP), syringe-exchange programme (SEP), or
needle exchange program (NEP) - ✔✔is a social service that allows injecting drug users
(IDUs) to obtain hypodermic needles and associated paraphernalia at little or no cost. It
is based on the philosophy of harm reduction that attempts to reduce the risk factors for
diseases such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis. While NSPs provide most or all equipment
free of charge, exchange programmes require service users to return used syringes to
receive an equal number of new syringes.[1]
✔✔MAT Program - ✔✔Medical assisted treatment.
✔✔Privileged - ✔✔Is a legal obligation.
✔✔Laam - ✔✔LAAM (Levomethadyl acetate) works very much like methadone. LAAM
and methadone are both synthetic opiates, and when given to opiate-dependent drug
users, they both take away feelings of withdrawal and drug cravings. They also both
block opiate receptors, limiting the effects of other opiate drugs.
LAAM and methadone are both currently available for the treatment of opiate addiction.
LAAM lasts longer and can be taken on alternate days, while methadone must be taken
daily.
, LAAM cannot, however, be given in take-home doses.
LAAM was introduced at methadone clinics in the 1980s. With the rise in HIV/AIDS,
health officials realized that they could reduce the transmission of the disease and
provide essential services through methadone and methadone clinic
✔✔Which drug is used for clients with a long history of Chronic history of alcoholism -
✔✔Disulfiram
✔✔When withdrawing from short-acting barbiturates, which withdrawal symptoms are
observable at both 8-12 hours and 2-3 days of abstinence - ✔✔They can cause
tremulousness(shakiness) and agitation
✔✔Barbiturates - ✔✔depressant drugs that have a sedative effects . Is a drug that acts
as a central nervous system depressant, and can therefore produce a wide spectrum of
effects, from mild sedation to total anesthesia. They are also effective as anxiolytics,
hypnotics, and anticonvulsants.
✔✔abscess - ✔✔collection of pus
✔✔Amphetamines - ✔✔also known as speed, is a drug that stimulates the central
nervous system. A client that has non-healing ulcers, abscesses, brittles fingernails and
bruxism(teeth grinding), would used the drug.
✔✔are ICE, speed, crystal meth, meth, whip, goey, shards, rock, uppers, whizz and
dexies.of drugs that increase the activity of certain chemicals in the brain and are
classed as stimulant drugs. - ✔✔amphetamine
✔✔What was the crisis in this case - ✔✔The client wanted to leave treatment because
of his work schedule .
✔✔The primary ethical issues in this case - ✔✔The counselor and client were planning
to carpool to after care.
✔✔Revia and Vivitrol - ✔✔Aka : naltrexone
✔✔should not be used by persons with acute hepatitis or liver failure, or those with
recent opioid use (typically 7-10 days). - ✔✔naltrexone
✔✔Oral naltrexone(revia-everyday which last hours or vitriol-monthly, which lasts
longer. - ✔✔Client that has dreams or smell alcohol and and has made efforts to stop
should use this method not the extended release injectable one.
✔✔Buprenorphine is - ✔✔different from other opioids in that it is a partial opioid agonist.
