CASAC-T EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
True - Answers TRUE or FALSE:
Prolonged alcohol and or substance use can cause changes in the brain?
True - Answers TRUE or FALSE:
If people use different illicit substances, they will often experience different intoxicating effects.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - Answers What does SAMHSA
mean?
is a governing body of mental health and addiction recovery education, prevention, and
treatment - Answers What does SAMSHA do:
All of the above - Answers According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM),
the definition for addiction is characterized by:
True - Answers People with a substance use disorder have distorted thinking, behavior, and
body functions.
All of the above - Answers In general, people begin taking drugs for a variety of reasons:
experiment, because of the social environment, or achieve a feeling of euphoria and to...?
True - Answers Withdrawal occurs when people experience certain physical and psychological
symptoms if the use of the substance is suddenly decreased or halted.
False - Answers TRUE or FALSE:
The "initiation stage" is the most dangerous stage of addiction
Substance use disorder - Answers The DSM-V prefers the term:
False - Answers A lapse means that the person has returned to extended and excessive period
substance use and now exhibits symptoms and criteria of SUD
False - Answers True or False: Substance use only impacts the cerebric system of the brain.
True - Answers TRUE or FALSE: Most illicit substances target the brain's reward system by
flooding it with dopamine
All of the above - Answers Choose the best Answer: Glutamate fosters the development and
maintenance of addiction through:
Learned and programmed - Answers Choose the best answer: Conditioning is one example of
how addiction is:
,True - Answers TRUE or FALSE: Drug addiction erodes a person's self-control and ability to
make sound decisions while producing intense impulses to take drugs.
True - Answers True or False:
Being ethical means conforming to accepted moral standards.
False - Answers True or False:
Ethics refers only to the interpretation of the law to guide an individual's behavior and/or actions.
Hippocratic oath - Answers Fill in the Blank:
For example, medical doctors take the _________.
Ethical Relativism - Answers Fill in the Blank:
The theory that holds that morality is relative to the norms of one's culture is __________.
True - Answers True or False:
The first rule of many ethical codes isprimum-non-nocere.
True - Answers TRUE or FALSE
A business is can be owned and operated by anyone and it is a kind of economic activity in
which profit is earned by making or buying and selling certain goods to the customers.
False - Answers TRUE or FALSE
A person can provide highly skilled quality counseling services as long as they have a business
license
True - Answers TRUE or FALSE
A professional is a member of a profession or any person who earns their living from a
specified professional activity.
False - Answers TRUE or FALSE
Addiction has always been viewed as a disease
a certain level of education
experience
supervision of skills
knowledge related to addiction counseling
,knowledge of intervention
knowledge of prevention - Answers In brief, individuals who wish to become an addiction
professional must possess:
Culture - Answers Fill in the BlankThe process of becoming culturally competent depends on
your ability to understand __________.
True - Answers TRUE OR FALSE
Culture provides people with a blueprint for how to live and interpret their world.
Language, Art, Food , Literature - Answers Fill in the Blank
____________ is the vehicle of culture.
False - Answers TRUE or FALSE
You are born with culture.
False - Answers TRUE or FALSE
Culture is the same as race, ethnicity, and nationality.
diversity - Answers Fill in the Blank
The _______ of the US has important implications for substance use disorder treatment
programs.
True - Answers TRUE or FALSE
Diversity occurs not only across racially and ethnically diverse groups but within each group as
well—there are cultures within cultures.
Communication - Answers Fill in the Blank
______________ is integral for all living things to exchange information between one another.
Gender roles - Answers Fill in the Blank
____________ are largely cultural constructs.
True - Answers TRUE or FALSE
In every society, there are dominant ideas about sex, gender, and sexuality.
True - Answers TRUE or FALSE
The World Health Organization estimates that more than 3 million deaths or 6% of all deaths
, worldwide per year can be attributed to alcohol.
Alcohol overdose can result in a range of effects including inability to feel pain, vomiting,
unconsciousness, coma, and in severe cases, death. - Answers Alcohol overdose depends on
how much is consumed and how quickly. The effects include:
Each has an equal amount of alcohol - Answers What has more alcohol: A 12 oz beer, A 5 oz
glass of wine, Or a 1.5 oz shot?
Dopamine - Answers Fill in the blank: Alcohol's activity on the ________site in the brain's reward
center produces the pleasurable feelings that motivate many people to drink in the first place.
Time - Answers What is the best remedy to cure intoxication?
Alcohol is eliminated through the breath since the bloodstream carries it to the lungs. - Answers
Why can a breathalyzer measure blood alcohol level?
he ability of the liver to metabolize alcohol
the presence or absence of food in the stomach
he concentration of alcohol in the beverage
how frequently a person drinks alcohol - Answers Pick all the answers that apply: The BAC level,
and every individual's reaction to alcohol is influenced by:
False - Answers Alcohol is a central nervous system stimulant.
True - Answers Alcohol dependent mothers who nurse pass alcohol to their babies through their
milk.
0.40 - Answers Fill in the blank: Lethal alcohol toxicity, or alcohol poisoning or overdose, can
occur when the drinker's blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is ___ or above.
6 or more - Answers Fill in the blank: In order to diagnose a severe alcohol use disorder, a client
must have ___symptoms or variants checked.
False - Answers Grand Mal (full body) type seizures occur in bursts of two or six more between
2 and 12 hours after the last drink.
1950s - Answers Fill in the blank:
In the ___________ the American Medical Association accepts alcoholism as a treatable illness
through to today
True - Answers True or False:
Groundbreaking discoveries about the brain have revolutionized our understanding of
True - Answers TRUE or FALSE:
Prolonged alcohol and or substance use can cause changes in the brain?
True - Answers TRUE or FALSE:
If people use different illicit substances, they will often experience different intoxicating effects.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - Answers What does SAMHSA
mean?
is a governing body of mental health and addiction recovery education, prevention, and
treatment - Answers What does SAMSHA do:
All of the above - Answers According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM),
the definition for addiction is characterized by:
True - Answers People with a substance use disorder have distorted thinking, behavior, and
body functions.
All of the above - Answers In general, people begin taking drugs for a variety of reasons:
experiment, because of the social environment, or achieve a feeling of euphoria and to...?
True - Answers Withdrawal occurs when people experience certain physical and psychological
symptoms if the use of the substance is suddenly decreased or halted.
False - Answers TRUE or FALSE:
The "initiation stage" is the most dangerous stage of addiction
Substance use disorder - Answers The DSM-V prefers the term:
False - Answers A lapse means that the person has returned to extended and excessive period
substance use and now exhibits symptoms and criteria of SUD
False - Answers True or False: Substance use only impacts the cerebric system of the brain.
True - Answers TRUE or FALSE: Most illicit substances target the brain's reward system by
flooding it with dopamine
All of the above - Answers Choose the best Answer: Glutamate fosters the development and
maintenance of addiction through:
Learned and programmed - Answers Choose the best answer: Conditioning is one example of
how addiction is:
,True - Answers TRUE or FALSE: Drug addiction erodes a person's self-control and ability to
make sound decisions while producing intense impulses to take drugs.
True - Answers True or False:
Being ethical means conforming to accepted moral standards.
False - Answers True or False:
Ethics refers only to the interpretation of the law to guide an individual's behavior and/or actions.
Hippocratic oath - Answers Fill in the Blank:
For example, medical doctors take the _________.
Ethical Relativism - Answers Fill in the Blank:
The theory that holds that morality is relative to the norms of one's culture is __________.
True - Answers True or False:
The first rule of many ethical codes isprimum-non-nocere.
True - Answers TRUE or FALSE
A business is can be owned and operated by anyone and it is a kind of economic activity in
which profit is earned by making or buying and selling certain goods to the customers.
False - Answers TRUE or FALSE
A person can provide highly skilled quality counseling services as long as they have a business
license
True - Answers TRUE or FALSE
A professional is a member of a profession or any person who earns their living from a
specified professional activity.
False - Answers TRUE or FALSE
Addiction has always been viewed as a disease
a certain level of education
experience
supervision of skills
knowledge related to addiction counseling
,knowledge of intervention
knowledge of prevention - Answers In brief, individuals who wish to become an addiction
professional must possess:
Culture - Answers Fill in the BlankThe process of becoming culturally competent depends on
your ability to understand __________.
True - Answers TRUE OR FALSE
Culture provides people with a blueprint for how to live and interpret their world.
Language, Art, Food , Literature - Answers Fill in the Blank
____________ is the vehicle of culture.
False - Answers TRUE or FALSE
You are born with culture.
False - Answers TRUE or FALSE
Culture is the same as race, ethnicity, and nationality.
diversity - Answers Fill in the Blank
The _______ of the US has important implications for substance use disorder treatment
programs.
True - Answers TRUE or FALSE
Diversity occurs not only across racially and ethnically diverse groups but within each group as
well—there are cultures within cultures.
Communication - Answers Fill in the Blank
______________ is integral for all living things to exchange information between one another.
Gender roles - Answers Fill in the Blank
____________ are largely cultural constructs.
True - Answers TRUE or FALSE
In every society, there are dominant ideas about sex, gender, and sexuality.
True - Answers TRUE or FALSE
The World Health Organization estimates that more than 3 million deaths or 6% of all deaths
, worldwide per year can be attributed to alcohol.
Alcohol overdose can result in a range of effects including inability to feel pain, vomiting,
unconsciousness, coma, and in severe cases, death. - Answers Alcohol overdose depends on
how much is consumed and how quickly. The effects include:
Each has an equal amount of alcohol - Answers What has more alcohol: A 12 oz beer, A 5 oz
glass of wine, Or a 1.5 oz shot?
Dopamine - Answers Fill in the blank: Alcohol's activity on the ________site in the brain's reward
center produces the pleasurable feelings that motivate many people to drink in the first place.
Time - Answers What is the best remedy to cure intoxication?
Alcohol is eliminated through the breath since the bloodstream carries it to the lungs. - Answers
Why can a breathalyzer measure blood alcohol level?
he ability of the liver to metabolize alcohol
the presence or absence of food in the stomach
he concentration of alcohol in the beverage
how frequently a person drinks alcohol - Answers Pick all the answers that apply: The BAC level,
and every individual's reaction to alcohol is influenced by:
False - Answers Alcohol is a central nervous system stimulant.
True - Answers Alcohol dependent mothers who nurse pass alcohol to their babies through their
milk.
0.40 - Answers Fill in the blank: Lethal alcohol toxicity, or alcohol poisoning or overdose, can
occur when the drinker's blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is ___ or above.
6 or more - Answers Fill in the blank: In order to diagnose a severe alcohol use disorder, a client
must have ___symptoms or variants checked.
False - Answers Grand Mal (full body) type seizures occur in bursts of two or six more between
2 and 12 hours after the last drink.
1950s - Answers Fill in the blank:
In the ___________ the American Medical Association accepts alcoholism as a treatable illness
through to today
True - Answers True or False:
Groundbreaking discoveries about the brain have revolutionized our understanding of
