CARN Test Practice Exam With Questions and Correct Answers
_____________ is a phenomenon whereby perior intermittent (rather than continuous)
exposure to the drug results in an enhanced response to later exposure - Answer-
Sensitization
________________ withdrawal symptoms include increased appetite, decreased heart rate,
insomnia and depressed mood. - Answer-Nicotine
__________ is a medication used to treat alcohol and opioid dependence decrease
dependence by decreasing physiological response to alcohol and opioids. - Answer-
Naltrexone
_____________ is a medications that is a potent full agonist at opioid receptors used in MAT
for opioids. - Answer-Methadone
Inhibitory effect of alcohol are related to decreasing effects of __________. - Answer-
glutamate
Pathophysiology of schizophrenia is due to excess of ___________. - Answer-dopamine.
Methadone ____________ withdrawal syndromes may present weeks after birth. - Answer-
neonatal
_______________ is the medication of choice for the treatment of psychotic symptoms in a
patient with delirium. - Answer-Haloperidol
_________ nerve palsies is most common in alcoholic patients. - Answer-Radial
What percent of patients with untreated major depression commit suicide? - Answer-15
, Abuse of alcohol is the most common cause of __________ disease of the US. - Answer-
cerebellar
____________ intoxication can cause muscle rigidity, increase deep tendon reflexes,
increase salivation and nystagmus, hypertension and catatonic display. - Answer-PCP
____________ is an illicit drug that is associated with seizures and hypertension. - Answer-
Amphetamine
_____________ use effects GABA neurons, higher incidences in men than in woman and is
the most commonly used illicit substance in the US. - Answer-Marijuana.
Methadone is metabolized in the ________ - Answer-liver
_________ or Antabuse is an alcohol antagonist drug. - Answer-Disulfiram
_____________ is a sedative drug that can interact with disulfiram. - Answer-Diazepam
A heroin addict buys a synthetic opioid contaminated with 1-metehyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6
tetraydropyridine (MPTP) and develops irreversible neurological damage by destroying
dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the brain resulting in this neurological
disease. - Answer-Parkinson disease
_____________ ____________Toxicity Criteria, which require the presence of one of the
following classical features or groups of features: spontaneous clonus; inducible clonus with
agitation or diaphoresis; ocular clonus with agitation or diaphoresis; tremor and
hyperreflexia; or hypertonia, temperature above 100.4° F (38° C), and ocular or inducible
clonus. - Answer-Hunter Serotonin
Intracranial hemorrhage or myocardial infarction can be seen in people who abuse
__________. - Answer-cocaine
_____________ is a phenomenon whereby perior intermittent (rather than continuous)
exposure to the drug results in an enhanced response to later exposure - Answer-
Sensitization
________________ withdrawal symptoms include increased appetite, decreased heart rate,
insomnia and depressed mood. - Answer-Nicotine
__________ is a medication used to treat alcohol and opioid dependence decrease
dependence by decreasing physiological response to alcohol and opioids. - Answer-
Naltrexone
_____________ is a medications that is a potent full agonist at opioid receptors used in MAT
for opioids. - Answer-Methadone
Inhibitory effect of alcohol are related to decreasing effects of __________. - Answer-
glutamate
Pathophysiology of schizophrenia is due to excess of ___________. - Answer-dopamine.
Methadone ____________ withdrawal syndromes may present weeks after birth. - Answer-
neonatal
_______________ is the medication of choice for the treatment of psychotic symptoms in a
patient with delirium. - Answer-Haloperidol
_________ nerve palsies is most common in alcoholic patients. - Answer-Radial
What percent of patients with untreated major depression commit suicide? - Answer-15
, Abuse of alcohol is the most common cause of __________ disease of the US. - Answer-
cerebellar
____________ intoxication can cause muscle rigidity, increase deep tendon reflexes,
increase salivation and nystagmus, hypertension and catatonic display. - Answer-PCP
____________ is an illicit drug that is associated with seizures and hypertension. - Answer-
Amphetamine
_____________ use effects GABA neurons, higher incidences in men than in woman and is
the most commonly used illicit substance in the US. - Answer-Marijuana.
Methadone is metabolized in the ________ - Answer-liver
_________ or Antabuse is an alcohol antagonist drug. - Answer-Disulfiram
_____________ is a sedative drug that can interact with disulfiram. - Answer-Diazepam
A heroin addict buys a synthetic opioid contaminated with 1-metehyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6
tetraydropyridine (MPTP) and develops irreversible neurological damage by destroying
dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the brain resulting in this neurological
disease. - Answer-Parkinson disease
_____________ ____________Toxicity Criteria, which require the presence of one of the
following classical features or groups of features: spontaneous clonus; inducible clonus with
agitation or diaphoresis; ocular clonus with agitation or diaphoresis; tremor and
hyperreflexia; or hypertonia, temperature above 100.4° F (38° C), and ocular or inducible
clonus. - Answer-Hunter Serotonin
Intracranial hemorrhage or myocardial infarction can be seen in people who abuse
__________. - Answer-cocaine
