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UNR CAS 154 Final Exam Study Guide
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Q: What does Hepatitis C affect?
Ans: The liver
Q: How is Hepatitis C spread?
Ans: Through contact by blood
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Q: The Center of Disease Control reported how many people were infected
with HIV?
Ans: 3.2 million
Q: What is the most common method of transmission of Hepatitis c?
Ans: Sharing needles
Q: What percent of infected, pregnant women will transmit Hep C to their
baby?
Ans: 5%
Q: List the symptoms of HCV
Ans: jaundice, fatigue, abdominal pain, loss of appetite and nausea
Q: How many will be chronically infected (HCV)?
Ans: 75-80%
Q: How many will develop liver disease?
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Ans: 70%
Q: What is the morality rate of liver cancer/ cirrhosis?
Ans: below 3%, leading indicator for liver transplants
Q: Is there a vaccine to protect from HCV?
Ans: no
Q: What is the treatment protocol for HCV?
Ans: combination of interferon and ribavirin
Q: Would a needle exchange program cause a young person to do drugs?
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Ans: No
Q: What is the other benefit of a needle exchange program (other than
clean needles)?
Ans: Provides opportunity for an outreach worker to provide addicted people
with information about treatment
Q: What is purpose of the needle exchange programs?
Ans: Reduce the spread of disease and cost of disease
Q: What does methadone maintenance do?
Ans: Client takes a daily does of opioid methadone to eliminate the unpleasant
effects of opioid withdrawal
Q: What happened with the test done at Rave Clubs?
Ans: They would test a piece of the drug to see if it was actually ecstasy, so no
overdosing
Q: What does Naloxone do?
Ans: "Overdose drug", reverses the overdose of a person who has taken to much
heroin or opioid
UNR CAS 154 Final Exam Study Guide
Questions and Answers 100% Correct Answers
Already Graded A+
Q: What does Hepatitis C affect?
Ans: The liver
Q: How is Hepatitis C spread?
Ans: Through contact by blood
Exampromax - Stuvia US
Q: The Center of Disease Control reported how many people were infected
with HIV?
Ans: 3.2 million
Q: What is the most common method of transmission of Hepatitis c?
Ans: Sharing needles
Q: What percent of infected, pregnant women will transmit Hep C to their
baby?
Ans: 5%
Q: List the symptoms of HCV
Ans: jaundice, fatigue, abdominal pain, loss of appetite and nausea
Q: How many will be chronically infected (HCV)?
Ans: 75-80%
Q: How many will develop liver disease?
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Ans: 70%
Q: What is the morality rate of liver cancer/ cirrhosis?
Ans: below 3%, leading indicator for liver transplants
Q: Is there a vaccine to protect from HCV?
Ans: no
Q: What is the treatment protocol for HCV?
Ans: combination of interferon and ribavirin
Q: Would a needle exchange program cause a young person to do drugs?
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Ans: No
Q: What is the other benefit of a needle exchange program (other than
clean needles)?
Ans: Provides opportunity for an outreach worker to provide addicted people
with information about treatment
Q: What is purpose of the needle exchange programs?
Ans: Reduce the spread of disease and cost of disease
Q: What does methadone maintenance do?
Ans: Client takes a daily does of opioid methadone to eliminate the unpleasant
effects of opioid withdrawal
Q: What happened with the test done at Rave Clubs?
Ans: They would test a piece of the drug to see if it was actually ecstasy, so no
overdosing
Q: What does Naloxone do?
Ans: "Overdose drug", reverses the overdose of a person who has taken to much
heroin or opioid
