Counselling and Addiction Test Preparation
Course Introduction
This course explores the foundations and practices of counselling in the context of addiction. Students will examine the psychological, social, and physiological aspects of addiction, including substance use disorders and behavioral addictions. The curriculum covers key counselling theories and evidence-based intervention strategies such as motivational interviewing, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and harm reduction. Emphasis is placed on culturally competent approaches, ethical considerations, relapse prevention, and recovery support systems. Through case studies and practical exercises, students develop essential skills to assess, engage, and support individuals and families affected by addiction.
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Drug Use and Abuse 1st Canadian Edition by Stephen Maisto
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Chapter 1: Drug Use and Abuse
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Q1) Which term describes why the capacity of a drug dose has a diminished effect on the user as it is repeatedly taken?
A)withdrawal
B)rebound effects
C)dependence
D)tolerance
Answer: D
Q2) When Canadians were asked to give their perspectives on drug abuse,78.0 percent of Canadians stated they preferred prevention and treatment to law enforcement and incarceration as a means of addressing drug issues.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Calling amphetamines "speed" is an example of drug classification by therapeutic use.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Drug Use: Yesterday
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Q1) Which drug was the target of the first prohibitionist drug law in Canada?
A)alcohol
B)opium
C)heroin
D)marijuana
Answer: B
Q2) In the 1990s the United States began to wage its most aggressive war on drugs under the leadership of President Clinton.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) All "club drugs" can be described as hallucinogens.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The Controlled Drugs and Substances Act was first enacted in 2002.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Drugs and the Nervous System
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Q1) Which neurotransmitter plays an important role in sleep regulation?
A)glutamate
B)serotonin
C)dopamine
D)acetylcholine
Answer: C
Q2) Jack told his friend Bill that when he sees beautiful women jogging along the pathway he feels he has had a perfect moment.What part of Jack's brain is most stimulated during these moments?
A)the medulla
B)cerebrospinal region
C)substantia nigra
D)mesolimbic dopaminergic pathway
Answer: D
Q3) Neural transmission is said to be electrical at the synapse.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Pharmacology
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Q1) All of the following systems receive major portions of a drug rapidly due to a high volume of drug flow EXCEPT which one?
A)muscles
B)heart
C)brain
D)kidney
Q2) What happens to a drug when it changes from solid to liquid after being mixed with a liquid?
A)It is dissolved.
B)It is suspended.
C)It is diffused.
D)It is absorbed.
Q3) What is a dose-effect curve? How is it used?
Q4) According to a 2006 study by the Public Health Agency of Canada,it is estimated that only 25 percent of Hep-C and 17 percent of HIV carriers were infected by injecting drugs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Cocaine, Amphetamines, and Related Stimulants
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Q1) Which laws would have impacted your life if you used cocaine while living in Ontario in 1959?
A)Harrison Narcotics Act
B)Opium and Narcotic Drug Act
C)Opium and Other Drugs Act
D)Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
Q2) Cocaine is thought to activate the dopamine pathways of the mesolimbic dopaminergic pathway.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Cocaine and amphetamines are beta-blockers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are some side effects of methamphetamine abuse?
A)deterioration of sight
B)depression
C)increased levels of endorphins
D)increased release of acetylcholine
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Q5) Describe the various routes of cocaine administration (that is,intranasal,smoking,intravenous).How do the effects differ?
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Chapter 6: Alcohol
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Q1) Part (a)of Section 253(1)of the Canadian Code makes it illegal to operate aircraft or railway equipment,or have any kind of 'care or control' over a motor vehicle,vessel,aircraft,or train when under the influence of alcohol.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Rates of FAS seem to be much higher among Aboriginals.
A)True
B)False
Q3) By the late 1700s,which society's view that alcohol met the needs of its countrymen caused it to become known as a country of drunkards?
A)England
B)France
C)Ireland
D)United States of America
Q4) What type of alcohol is used in the production of alcoholic beverages?
A)isopropyl alcohol
B)methyl alcohol
C)wood alcohol
D)ethanol
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Chapter 7: Nicotine
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Q1) Smokers are two to four times more likely to develop coronary heart disease.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Non-Smokers' Health Act bans smoking in federal workplaces.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Mary just celebrated her 38<sup>th</sup> birthday and quit smoking last year after having smoked since she was 18 years old.Which health issue could Mary face?
A)early menopause
B)uterine cancer
C)ovarian cancer
D)esophageal cancer
Q4) From what plant is the tobacco that is consumed today?
A)nicotiana rustica
B)nicotiana papyra
C)nicotiana tabacum
D)nicotiana tobacicia
Q5) Smokers tend to weigh more than nonsmokers.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Caffeine
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Q1) Instant coffee contains more caffeine per serving than brewed coffee.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What type of caffeine did 15 century European explorers discover in Central and South America?
A)coffee
B)tea
C)the cacao plant
D)the kola nut
Q3) According to the study conducted by Marks & Kelly (1973),which drink is most likely to continue to be close to its peak level of caffeine in the blood,two hours after consumption?
A)cola
B)coffee
C)tea
D)maté
Q4) How does caffeine affect mood and performance?
Q5) Caffeine is an effective means to reduce erotic desire.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Marijuana
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Q1) By which means does the most rapid and efficient absorption of marijuana occur?
A)chewing
B)oral ingestion
C)smoking
D)snorting
Q2) Which mythical individual is credited with describing the medicinal benefits of marijuana around 2800 BCE?
A)Atharva Veda
B)Al-kief
C)Pimodan
D)Shen Nung
Q3) Marijuana is the most frequently used recreational drug today.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What stimulated widespread use of marijuana for its psychoactive properties in Europe in the 1960s?
A)the musical group The Beatles
B)American tourists
C)medical journals supporting the medicinal benefits of the drug
D)new immigration policies supporting South American citizens
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Chapter 10: Hallucinogens
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Q1) With which drug can Karen's physician treat her persistent flashbacks stemming from her drug usage?
A)mescaline
B)benzodiazepines
C)scopolamine
D)any cholinergic hallucinogen
Q2) Dr.Frank has been experimenting with Psilocybe and Teonanacatl in his lab.How would they be described botanically?
A)as plants containing mescaline
B)as hallucinogenic mushrooms
C)as anticholinergics
D)as poisonous fungi
Q3) Which drug is regularly used in veterinary medicine?
A)scopolamine
B)mescaline
C)ketamine
D)ibogaine
Q4) Discuss the history and epidemiology of methylated amphetamines.
Q5) Describe in detail the physiological and psychological effects of LSD and related hallucinogens.
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Chapter 11: Opiates
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Q1) Discuss the history of opiate drug use from its introduction to Western society up until the passage of the American Harrison Narcotic Act and the Canadian Opium Act in 1908 and Opium and Narcotic Drug Act (1929).
Q2) What is the active chemical in opium?
A)morphine
B)heroin
C)laudanum
D)Doda
Q3) Who wrote The Confessions of an English Opium Eater?
A)William Langton
B)Jerry Garcia
C)Alder Wright
D)Thomas De Quincey
Q4) Heinrich Dreser is credited for discovering heroin and which other drug?
A)aspirin
B)doda
C)morphine
D)MPPP
Q5) What does the use of heroin by Vietnam veterans teach us about addiction?
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Q6) What are endorphins? Discuss their functions and relationships to opiate drugs.
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Chapter 12: Psychotherapeutic Medications
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Q1) A psychiatrist makes the statement "to clamp the neuron." What would he have said if he was to use the Greek word from which this expression originates?
A)neuroinhibit
B)antimanic
C)antianxiety
D)neuroleptic
Q2) If psychotherapeutic mediation is the true definer of psychopharmacology,then in what year was psychopharmacology's birth realized?
A)1931
B)1941
C)1951
D)1961
Q3) Barbiturates were introduced into general medical practice in 1903,and they were marketed under the brand name Veronal.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the side effects that may be encountered with the use of antipsychotics.How may these side effects be controlled?
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Chapter 13: Other Prescription
and Over-The-Counter Drugs
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Q1) Most inhalants produce their euphoric effects by activating the CNS.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The effects of the vapours of nitrite last about 40 minutes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What failure rate is associated with the combination birth control pill?
A)10 percent
B)7 percent
C)5 percent
D)3 percent
Q4) A common way that volatile solvents are inhaled is called huffing,when users inhale the fumes from a bag or a balloon where an aerosol propellant had been sprayed.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Compare and contrast the major over-the-counter natural health products and dietary supplements.
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Q6) Compare and contrast the various methods of birth control with regard to efficacy and side effects.
Chapter 14: Treatment of Substance-Use Disorders
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Q1) What type of professionally monitored help is Elaine receiving to manage her withdrawal symptoms without any drugs,while she stays in the treatment setting?
A)pharmacotherapy
B)social detoxification
C)milieu therapy
D)aftercare
Q2) According to Sokolow,Welte,Hynes,and Lyons' (1981)survey of patients in New York alcoholism rehabilitation programs,what percentage used at least one other drug in the 30 days before treatment?
A)20 percent
B)50 percent
C)75 percent
D)90 percent
Q3) What did Narcotics Anonymous evolve to have a concentration on?
A)opiates
B)cocaine
C)marijuana
D)hallucinogens
Q4) Describe the five models of the causes of alcohol dependence.
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Chapter 15: Prevention of Substance Abuse
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Q1) The principles of drug abuse prevention have specific focuses.What principle would be represented by the following statement: Family-based prevention programs should enhance family bonding and relationships and include parenting skills?
A)Principle 3
B)Principle 4
C)Principle 5
D)Principle 6
Q2) You inform the judge the reason you broke into a car was to steal the computer so you could sell it to support your drug addiction.What type of intervention will the judge most likely use in response to substance misuse?
A)primary prevention
B)secondary prevention
C)rebound restitution
D)tertiary prevention
Q3) Prevention has consistently been given high priority by professionals over the years.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the Principles of Drug Abuse Prevention.Give examples.
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