Drug and Alcohol Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A person feels calm after using cannabis but plans to drive. Which fact is most relevant?
Cannabis can impair reaction time, attention, coordination, and judgment even if the person feels calm.
Cannabis affects driving only when mixed with alcohol.
Driving is unaffected if the person uses cannabis regularly.
Feeling calm reliably predicts that driving ability is unaffected.
2. Which statement about substance use disorder is most accurate?
It can be identified solely from the amount used on one occasion.
It affects only people who use illegal substances.
Withdrawal must be present before problematic use can matter.
It involves a problematic pattern of use and consequences, and proper assessment requires more than a brief knowledge quiz.
3. Which statement correctly distinguishes physical dependence from a substance use disorder?
A substance use disorder is defined only by experiencing withdrawal.
Physical dependence and a substance use disorder are always identical.
Physical dependence can occur with regular prescribed use, while a substance use disorder involves a broader problematic pattern and impaired control.
Neither can occur when medication is prescribed by a clinician.
4. At a gathering, a person is offered a loose prescription pill but cannot confirm what it is or how strong it is. What is the safest response?
Take half because reducing the amount removes interaction and contamination risks.
Do not take it; appearance cannot reliably identify a pill, and a pharmacist or other qualified source should verify medication.
Take it only with food so its effects develop gradually.
Ask whether someone else took a similar-looking pill without problems.
5. Which statement most accurately describes physical dependence?
It means a person has committed an illegal act to obtain a substance.
It means any use of a substance has become compulsive.
The body has adapted to a substance, so reducing or stopping it may cause withdrawal.
It occurs only with illicit drugs, not prescribed medications.
6. At a party, someone combines alcohol with a stimulant and says they feel less drunk. What is the most accurate interpretation?
The stimulant has removed the alcohol from their bloodstream.
Feeling more awake means their coordination and judgment are restored.
The stimulant may mask sleepiness without removing alcohol-related impairment or risk.
The substances neutralize each other when taken in similar amounts.
7. A person continues to use unregulated opioids despite overdose risk. Which plan most directly reduces the chance that an overdose will go unnoticed or untreated?
Use alone so no one else is exposed to the situation.
Rely on tolerance to keep the dose within a safe range.
Use alcohol at the same time to make opioid effects easier to recognize.
Avoid using alone, keep naloxone available, and ensure someone can call emergency services.
8. After drinking heavily, someone has coffee and takes a cold shower because they need to become sober quickly. What actually lowers the alcohol level in their body?
The caffeine in strong coffee
The sudden temperature change from the shower
Alternating coffee with water for several minutes
Time, as the body processes the alcohol
9. After drinking, a person is difficult to wake, vomits repeatedly, and has slow or irregular breathing. What is the appropriate response?
Treat it as a possible alcohol-poisoning emergency and contact emergency services immediately.
Give them food and let them sleep without interruption.
Encourage them to walk around until they become more alert.
Wait for all three symptoms to disappear before deciding whether help is needed.
10. Someone takes a prescribed benzodiazepine and then drinks several alcoholic beverages. What is the main safety concern?
Their combined depressant effects can dangerously increase sedation and slow breathing.
The alcohol will prevent the medication from being absorbed.
The medication will reliably eliminate alcohol-related impairment.
The combination primarily creates a risk of dehydration without affecting consciousness.
11. What does drug tolerance mean?
A person experiences withdrawal whenever they miss one dose.
A person needs more of a substance to produce an effect previously reached with less.
A substance no longer appears in standard laboratory tests.
A person can use the substance without experiencing impairment or harm.
12. Why can sharing needles or other injection equipment be especially dangerous?
It prevents the substance from entering the bloodstream predictably.
It can transmit blood-borne infections and contribute to serious skin or bloodstream infections.
It changes every injected drug into an opioid.
Its only additional risk is temporary bruising at the injection site.
13. Which description best matches alcohol's primary effect on the central nervous system?
It is a stimulant that consistently increases alertness as the dose rises.
It is a depressant that can slow brain activity and impair coordination and judgment.
It is a hallucinogen whose main effect is visual distortion.
It has no central nervous system effects until a person loses consciousness.
14. What is the main purpose of the “standard drink” concept?
To compare servings that contain roughly equivalent amounts of pure alcohol despite different beverage types
To show that one glass or container always equals one serving
To guarantee that a listed serving will not impair anyone
To rank beverages by how quickly they cause dependence
15. What is naloxone used for?
Preventing all withdrawal symptoms after long-term opioid use
Making alcohol leave the bloodstream more quickly
Temporarily reversing the life-threatening effects of an opioid overdose
Testing an unknown substance for every possible contaminant
16. A person who may have used opioids is unresponsive and breathing very slowly. What should someone nearby recognize?
The person should be left alone for an hour before anyone checks again.
This is normal sleep as long as the person used opioids earlier.
These signs indicate stimulant withdrawal and should resolve after caffeine.
These are possible opioid-overdose signs requiring an immediate emergency response.