MH701 EXAM 3 2026 THERAPEUTIC
INTERVENTIONS AND CARE PLANNING
ASSESSMENT PAPER ANSWERS VERIFIED
SUMMARY SHEET
◉ What parts of the brain are involved in the reward pathway?
Answer: the ventral tegmental area (VTA), nucleus accumbens &
pre-frontal cortex.
When activated by a rewarding stimuli, information travels from the
VTA to the nucleus accumbens and then up to the prefrontal cortex.
◉ All drugs that lead to addiction increases:
Answer: dopamine in the ventral striatum.
◉ Reinforcement of SUD results in what kind of sensations when a
drug is abused?
Answer: "feel good"
◉ What sensations in SUD are experienced when the drug exit the
body?
Answer: "feel bad"
,◉ Social rewards associated with drug use:
Answer: disinhibition, euphoric mood and anxiety reduction.
◉ Negative rewards from drug use are:
Answer: increased anxiety, dysphoria.
◉ DA release in the reward center is further enhanced by the release
of:
Answer: natural morphine-like neurotransmitters called
neuropeptides.
◉ Define abuse:
Answer: Self-administration of any drug in a culturally disapproved
manner that cause adverse consequences.
◉ Define Addiction:
Answer: A behavioral pattern of drug abuse characterized by
overwhelming involvement with the use of a drug (compulsive use),
the securing of it's supply, and a high tendency to relapse after
discontinuation.
◉ Define compulsivity:
,Answer: Repetitive actions inappropriate to the situation that
persist, that have no obvious relationship to the overall goal, and
often result in undesirable consequences, behavior that results in
preservation, in response in the face of adverse consequences.
◉ Cross-tolerance:
Answer: The ability of one drug to suppress the manifestations of
physical dependence produced by another drug to maintain the
physical dependent state.
◉ Dependence:
Answer: The physiological state of adaption produced by repeated
administration of certain drugs such as alcohol, heroin and benzos
when they are abruptly discontinued, and are associated with
physical drug withdrawal distinct from the motivational changes of
acute withdrawal and protracted abstinence which is part of
addiction.
◉ Habit:
Answer: Responses triggered by environmental stimuli regardless of
the current desirability of the consequences. The condition response
to a stimulus has been reinforced and strengthened either by past
experience with reward (positive reinforcement) or by omission of
an adverse event (negative reinforcement).
, ◉ Impulsivity:
Answer: The tendency to act prematurely without foresight; actions
which are poorly conceived, prematurely expressed, unduly risky, or
inappropriate to the situation. Measured in 2 domains: the choice of
a small, immediate reward over a larger, delayed reward, or the
inability to inhibit behavior to change the course of action or stop a
response once it is initiated.
◉ Rebound:
Answer: The exaggerated expression of the original condition
sometimes experiences by patients immediately after cessation of an
effective treatment.
◉ Reinforcement:
Answer: The tendency of a pleasure-producing drug to lead to a
repeated self-administration.
◉ Relapse:
Answer: The recurrence, upon discontinuation of an effective
medical treatment, of the original condition from which the patient
suffered.
◉ Tolerance:
Answer: When the body becomes less responsive to the drug with
repeated exposure.
INTERVENTIONS AND CARE PLANNING
ASSESSMENT PAPER ANSWERS VERIFIED
SUMMARY SHEET
◉ What parts of the brain are involved in the reward pathway?
Answer: the ventral tegmental area (VTA), nucleus accumbens &
pre-frontal cortex.
When activated by a rewarding stimuli, information travels from the
VTA to the nucleus accumbens and then up to the prefrontal cortex.
◉ All drugs that lead to addiction increases:
Answer: dopamine in the ventral striatum.
◉ Reinforcement of SUD results in what kind of sensations when a
drug is abused?
Answer: "feel good"
◉ What sensations in SUD are experienced when the drug exit the
body?
Answer: "feel bad"
,◉ Social rewards associated with drug use:
Answer: disinhibition, euphoric mood and anxiety reduction.
◉ Negative rewards from drug use are:
Answer: increased anxiety, dysphoria.
◉ DA release in the reward center is further enhanced by the release
of:
Answer: natural morphine-like neurotransmitters called
neuropeptides.
◉ Define abuse:
Answer: Self-administration of any drug in a culturally disapproved
manner that cause adverse consequences.
◉ Define Addiction:
Answer: A behavioral pattern of drug abuse characterized by
overwhelming involvement with the use of a drug (compulsive use),
the securing of it's supply, and a high tendency to relapse after
discontinuation.
◉ Define compulsivity:
,Answer: Repetitive actions inappropriate to the situation that
persist, that have no obvious relationship to the overall goal, and
often result in undesirable consequences, behavior that results in
preservation, in response in the face of adverse consequences.
◉ Cross-tolerance:
Answer: The ability of one drug to suppress the manifestations of
physical dependence produced by another drug to maintain the
physical dependent state.
◉ Dependence:
Answer: The physiological state of adaption produced by repeated
administration of certain drugs such as alcohol, heroin and benzos
when they are abruptly discontinued, and are associated with
physical drug withdrawal distinct from the motivational changes of
acute withdrawal and protracted abstinence which is part of
addiction.
◉ Habit:
Answer: Responses triggered by environmental stimuli regardless of
the current desirability of the consequences. The condition response
to a stimulus has been reinforced and strengthened either by past
experience with reward (positive reinforcement) or by omission of
an adverse event (negative reinforcement).
, ◉ Impulsivity:
Answer: The tendency to act prematurely without foresight; actions
which are poorly conceived, prematurely expressed, unduly risky, or
inappropriate to the situation. Measured in 2 domains: the choice of
a small, immediate reward over a larger, delayed reward, or the
inability to inhibit behavior to change the course of action or stop a
response once it is initiated.
◉ Rebound:
Answer: The exaggerated expression of the original condition
sometimes experiences by patients immediately after cessation of an
effective treatment.
◉ Reinforcement:
Answer: The tendency of a pleasure-producing drug to lead to a
repeated self-administration.
◉ Relapse:
Answer: The recurrence, upon discontinuation of an effective
medical treatment, of the original condition from which the patient
suffered.
◉ Tolerance:
Answer: When the body becomes less responsive to the drug with
repeated exposure.
