NAADAC Testing: Module 1 Top
Examinable Questions with accurate
answers. Rated A
Uppers - ✔✔-CNS Stimulants: cocaine, amphetamines & meth, caffeine, nicotine
Downers - ✔✔-CNS Depressants: alcohol, benzos, barbituat
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NAADAC Testing: Module 1 Top
Examinable Questions with accurate
answers. Rated A
Uppers - ✔✔-CNS Stimulants: cocaine, amphetamines & meth, caffeine, nicotine
Downers - ✔✔-CNS Depressants: alcohol, benzos, barbituates, opiates, sedative- hypnotics, muscle
relaxants, antihistamines
All-Arounders - ✔✔-psychedelics (LSD, mushrooms, MDMA/Ecstacy, PCP, DXM) and Cannabis
Acute intox Sx of uppers - ✔✔-Increased: heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, alertness, activity,
anxiety, aggression, confidence, constriction of blood vessels, body temperature, dilated pupils, runny
nose, dry mouth, muscle twitching, sexual stimulation Decreased: appetite for both food and water
Acute intox sx of depressants (general) - ✔✔-Decreased: heart rate, blood pressure, breathing,
digestion, basic psychological functions such as motor coordination and mental awareness, restricted
pupils
Specifics of alcohol - ✔✔-effects every organ in the body, impacts GABA, dopamine, glutimate and
serotonin; electrolite imbalances can lead to life threating seizures
Habituation - ✔✔-repitition of behaivors until they are established into daily life
Acute Alcohol withdrawal Sx - ✔✔-High Risk: tremors, slurred speech, nausea and/or vomiting, flushed
face, dehydration, sweating, rapid heart rate, insomnia, poor coordination, poor memory,
halluninations, grand mal seizures, delirium tremens (DT's)
Barbituates & Benzodiazapines - ✔✔-work on GABA, "standard" depressant effects, withdrawal sx can
be toxic and present almost identical to alcohol
Tolerance - ✔✔-Increased need for markedly more of the same substance in order to acheive the
deisred effect (decreased need without a change in the substance is reverse tolerance) Can occur in as
little as 3-4 weeks of use
Dependence - ✔✔-aka Addiction: behavioral pattern of complusive substance use; consistent
involvement with the use of substances, high tendency to relapse after withdrawal
Detoxification - ✔✔-Process of eliminating all psychoactive substances from the body
Methods of administration - ✔✔-oral- mouth via swallowing or smoking; Nasally- snorting or inhaling;
IM- injection into a muscle; IV- Injecting into a vein; Subcutanious- injecting beneith the skin; Topicalapplyed on top of the skin; Sublingually- dissolving under the touge; rectally- inserted into the anus;
Vagionally- inserted into the vagional openin
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