CARN AP Questions Correctly Answered
The Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale (SOCRATES) -
✅✅ 19 item self-reports test
Assesses patient's motivation to change drinking behavior
Inventory of Drinking Situations - ✅✅ used to identify emotional, cognitive, and
social factors that may precipitate drinking
Coping Response Inventory (CRI) - ✅✅ Assess coping skill of patient in
preparation for relapse prevention
Situational Confidence Questionnaire (SCQ) - ✅✅ Measures adherence to
treatment for patients with addiction
39 self reported questions
What brain structure is responsible for the reinforcing nature of opioid use> -
✅✅ Nucleus accumbens
Signs of intoxication start to become obvious at what levels? - ✅✅ 100-150mg%
Drowsiness can be prevalent at what blood alcohol level? - ✅✅ 150-200mg%
What blood alcohol levels would you expect to see amnesia, severe dysarthria, and
sometimes hypothermia? - ✅✅ 300-399mg%
At what blood alcohol level can coma occur? - ✅✅ 400-600mg%
Above what blood alcohol level can be fatal? - ✅✅ >600mg%
Define drug induced thrombotic microangiopathy (DITMA)? - ✅✅ Acute
kidney injury caused by cocaine use
What are symptoms patient experience if they consume alcohol after taking
disulfiram? - ✅✅ (Antabuse)
Causes sweating, flushing, hyperventilation, dyspnea, blurred vision, vomiting,
tachycardia and confusion
, What is the action of disulfiram (Antabuse) in the presence of alcohol? - ✅✅
Causes a rapid rise acetaldehyde
Standard size of a drink - beer, wine, liquor - ✅✅ 12 oz. Beer, 5 oz. Wine, 1.5
oz. Hard liquor
Moderate alcohol consumption, how much per day - ✅✅ no more than one drink
daily for adult women, two for men
Symptoms of alcohol withdrawal - ✅✅ Agitation, Fever, Seizures, Tremors,
Confusion, Delusions
CAGE Questionnaire: referring to alcoholism - ✅✅ C-cutting down (have you
felt the need to cut down?)
A-Annoyed by others' criticisms
G-guilty feelings about drinking
E-Eye openers-do you feel the need to drink in the morning?
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) - ✅✅ action therapy in which the goal is to
help clients overcome problems by learning to think more rationally and logically
Percentage of adults that have had an exposure to alcohol - ✅✅ 88%
Life time risk of alcohol dependence - ✅✅ 13%
Motivational interviewing is a life-long learning skill set. Which one of the
following best reflects proficiency in MI practice?
A. Open-ended questions are more frequent than closed-ended questions
B. Reflections are employed more than twice as often as open-ended questions
C. Complex reflections are at least as frequent as simple reflections
D. The "spirit of MI": collaboration, compassion, acceptance, and evocation is
present throughout
E. All of the above - ✅✅ E
Motivational interviewing's effectiveness in facilitating behavior change in people
from racially and ethnically diverse communities is?
A. Unknown because this research has never been done
B. Unknown because the research that has been done was inconclusive
C. Less effective than in non-Hispanic Caucasian communities
The Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale (SOCRATES) -
✅✅ 19 item self-reports test
Assesses patient's motivation to change drinking behavior
Inventory of Drinking Situations - ✅✅ used to identify emotional, cognitive, and
social factors that may precipitate drinking
Coping Response Inventory (CRI) - ✅✅ Assess coping skill of patient in
preparation for relapse prevention
Situational Confidence Questionnaire (SCQ) - ✅✅ Measures adherence to
treatment for patients with addiction
39 self reported questions
What brain structure is responsible for the reinforcing nature of opioid use> -
✅✅ Nucleus accumbens
Signs of intoxication start to become obvious at what levels? - ✅✅ 100-150mg%
Drowsiness can be prevalent at what blood alcohol level? - ✅✅ 150-200mg%
What blood alcohol levels would you expect to see amnesia, severe dysarthria, and
sometimes hypothermia? - ✅✅ 300-399mg%
At what blood alcohol level can coma occur? - ✅✅ 400-600mg%
Above what blood alcohol level can be fatal? - ✅✅ >600mg%
Define drug induced thrombotic microangiopathy (DITMA)? - ✅✅ Acute
kidney injury caused by cocaine use
What are symptoms patient experience if they consume alcohol after taking
disulfiram? - ✅✅ (Antabuse)
Causes sweating, flushing, hyperventilation, dyspnea, blurred vision, vomiting,
tachycardia and confusion
, What is the action of disulfiram (Antabuse) in the presence of alcohol? - ✅✅
Causes a rapid rise acetaldehyde
Standard size of a drink - beer, wine, liquor - ✅✅ 12 oz. Beer, 5 oz. Wine, 1.5
oz. Hard liquor
Moderate alcohol consumption, how much per day - ✅✅ no more than one drink
daily for adult women, two for men
Symptoms of alcohol withdrawal - ✅✅ Agitation, Fever, Seizures, Tremors,
Confusion, Delusions
CAGE Questionnaire: referring to alcoholism - ✅✅ C-cutting down (have you
felt the need to cut down?)
A-Annoyed by others' criticisms
G-guilty feelings about drinking
E-Eye openers-do you feel the need to drink in the morning?
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) - ✅✅ action therapy in which the goal is to
help clients overcome problems by learning to think more rationally and logically
Percentage of adults that have had an exposure to alcohol - ✅✅ 88%
Life time risk of alcohol dependence - ✅✅ 13%
Motivational interviewing is a life-long learning skill set. Which one of the
following best reflects proficiency in MI practice?
A. Open-ended questions are more frequent than closed-ended questions
B. Reflections are employed more than twice as often as open-ended questions
C. Complex reflections are at least as frequent as simple reflections
D. The "spirit of MI": collaboration, compassion, acceptance, and evocation is
present throughout
E. All of the above - ✅✅ E
Motivational interviewing's effectiveness in facilitating behavior change in people
from racially and ethnically diverse communities is?
A. Unknown because this research has never been done
B. Unknown because the research that has been done was inconclusive
C. Less effective than in non-Hispanic Caucasian communities
