CADC PRACTICE EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Incentive Salience - ✔✔Effective brain adaption (hypersensitization) to early drug
use producing a strong stimuli and reward linkage. Drug use moves from "liking" to
"wanting" called "incentive salience".
✔✔Interference therapy - ✔✔Therapy that reduces an abused drug capacity to produce
intensely pleasurable effects.
✔✔Jaundice - ✔✔yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an
accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood usually cased from liver damage.
✔✔MAOI - ✔✔avoid tyramine foods like: avocado, smoked meats, cheeses, wine, and
chocolate.
✔✔Myalgia - ✔✔muscle pain
✔✔Oculogyric Crisis - ✔✔Dystonia of the muscles of the eye causing sustained upward
lateral movement of the eye usually caused from neuroleptic medication.
✔✔Occipital - ✔✔Back of skull
✔✔Petechiae - ✔✔Bleeding causing very small red dots sometimes caused by a drug
side effect.
✔✔Semisynthetic Narcotics - ✔✔heroin, hydromorphone, oxycodone, etorphine
✔✔Tachycardia - ✔✔Abnormally rapid heartbeat
✔✔Therapeutic index - ✔✔the ratio between the toxic and therapeutic concentrations of
a drug. the narrower the ratio the more dangerous the medication.
✔✔Tinnitus - ✔✔ringing or buzzing in the ears
✔✔Torticollis - ✔✔A persistent unilateral neck spasm causing the head to rotate; also
called wry neck.
✔✔Treatment Stages - ✔✔Detoxification, rehabilitation, continuing care and support.
✔✔Vasoconstrictor - ✔✔a drug that causes a narrowing of blood vessels, thereby
decreasing blood flow
, ✔✔Mydriatics - ✔✔Dilate pupils: atropine, amphetamines, cocaine, tricyclic
antidepressants, and atropine.
✔✔Miosis - ✔✔constriction of the pupil: opioids, depressants, fentanyl, morphine, heroin
and methadone, antipsychotics, trazodone, and some MAOI.
✔✔Formication - ✔✔spontaneous abnormal sensation of ants or other insects running
over the skin usually caused by prolonged use of stimulants such as meth.
✔✔Stages of Withdrawal - ✔✔1: Primary or acute/ 2-7 days, strongest symptoms.
2: Secondary or prolonged/ weeks to months.
✔✔Narcotic - ✔✔originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with sleep-
inducing properties. In the United States, it has since become associated with opiates
and opioids, commonly morphine and heroin, as well as derivatives of many of the
compounds
✔✔Dr. Magnus Huss - ✔✔Coined term Alcoholic in 1849.
✔✔Dr Benjamin Rush - ✔✔Proposed sober houses for alcoholics in 1790.
✔✔Blood Alcohol Levels - ✔✔Moderate impairment: 0.01 - 0.03
Severe impairment: 0.15 - 0.35
Legally drunk: .08
Death: 0.35 >
✔✔Alcohol Withdrawal timeframe - ✔✔Peeks 2 - 3 days and subsides in 4 - 5 days.
Cravings may continue for years.
✔✔Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome/ Post detox - ✔✔1: Onset 6 - 8 hours - symptoms;
tremor, agitation, anxiety, tachycardia, hypertension, nausea and vomiting, diaphoresis,
anorexia, headache, insomnia, craving.
2: Onset 24 hours (sometimes delayed for up to six days) - symptoms; hallucinations,
delusions.
3: Onset 7 - 48 hours - symptoms; grand mal seizures, if untreated may progress to
Delirium Tremens.
4: Onset 3-5 days - symptoms; delirium tremens, confusion, autonomic hyperactivity,
hallucinations etc 5%-6% progress to this stage 80% of symptoms resolve in < 3 days
Post detox: detox usually takes no more than 5 days and afterwards shakes and
hallucinations may continue. CNS depressants are often useful.
✔✔Antabuse - ✔✔Causes reaction of flushing, sweating, nausea, and chest pain if you
drink. It must be used every day and is highly effective, it can also be used with
methadone.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Incentive Salience - ✔✔Effective brain adaption (hypersensitization) to early drug
use producing a strong stimuli and reward linkage. Drug use moves from "liking" to
"wanting" called "incentive salience".
✔✔Interference therapy - ✔✔Therapy that reduces an abused drug capacity to produce
intensely pleasurable effects.
✔✔Jaundice - ✔✔yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an
accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood usually cased from liver damage.
✔✔MAOI - ✔✔avoid tyramine foods like: avocado, smoked meats, cheeses, wine, and
chocolate.
✔✔Myalgia - ✔✔muscle pain
✔✔Oculogyric Crisis - ✔✔Dystonia of the muscles of the eye causing sustained upward
lateral movement of the eye usually caused from neuroleptic medication.
✔✔Occipital - ✔✔Back of skull
✔✔Petechiae - ✔✔Bleeding causing very small red dots sometimes caused by a drug
side effect.
✔✔Semisynthetic Narcotics - ✔✔heroin, hydromorphone, oxycodone, etorphine
✔✔Tachycardia - ✔✔Abnormally rapid heartbeat
✔✔Therapeutic index - ✔✔the ratio between the toxic and therapeutic concentrations of
a drug. the narrower the ratio the more dangerous the medication.
✔✔Tinnitus - ✔✔ringing or buzzing in the ears
✔✔Torticollis - ✔✔A persistent unilateral neck spasm causing the head to rotate; also
called wry neck.
✔✔Treatment Stages - ✔✔Detoxification, rehabilitation, continuing care and support.
✔✔Vasoconstrictor - ✔✔a drug that causes a narrowing of blood vessels, thereby
decreasing blood flow
, ✔✔Mydriatics - ✔✔Dilate pupils: atropine, amphetamines, cocaine, tricyclic
antidepressants, and atropine.
✔✔Miosis - ✔✔constriction of the pupil: opioids, depressants, fentanyl, morphine, heroin
and methadone, antipsychotics, trazodone, and some MAOI.
✔✔Formication - ✔✔spontaneous abnormal sensation of ants or other insects running
over the skin usually caused by prolonged use of stimulants such as meth.
✔✔Stages of Withdrawal - ✔✔1: Primary or acute/ 2-7 days, strongest symptoms.
2: Secondary or prolonged/ weeks to months.
✔✔Narcotic - ✔✔originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with sleep-
inducing properties. In the United States, it has since become associated with opiates
and opioids, commonly morphine and heroin, as well as derivatives of many of the
compounds
✔✔Dr. Magnus Huss - ✔✔Coined term Alcoholic in 1849.
✔✔Dr Benjamin Rush - ✔✔Proposed sober houses for alcoholics in 1790.
✔✔Blood Alcohol Levels - ✔✔Moderate impairment: 0.01 - 0.03
Severe impairment: 0.15 - 0.35
Legally drunk: .08
Death: 0.35 >
✔✔Alcohol Withdrawal timeframe - ✔✔Peeks 2 - 3 days and subsides in 4 - 5 days.
Cravings may continue for years.
✔✔Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome/ Post detox - ✔✔1: Onset 6 - 8 hours - symptoms;
tremor, agitation, anxiety, tachycardia, hypertension, nausea and vomiting, diaphoresis,
anorexia, headache, insomnia, craving.
2: Onset 24 hours (sometimes delayed for up to six days) - symptoms; hallucinations,
delusions.
3: Onset 7 - 48 hours - symptoms; grand mal seizures, if untreated may progress to
Delirium Tremens.
4: Onset 3-5 days - symptoms; delirium tremens, confusion, autonomic hyperactivity,
hallucinations etc 5%-6% progress to this stage 80% of symptoms resolve in < 3 days
Post detox: detox usually takes no more than 5 days and afterwards shakes and
hallucinations may continue. CNS depressants are often useful.
✔✔Antabuse - ✔✔Causes reaction of flushing, sweating, nausea, and chest pain if you
drink. It must be used every day and is highly effective, it can also be used with
methadone.
