Alcohol Abuse Quiz

Test your pharmacology knowledge by taking the following Alcohol Abuse Quiz, share your thoughts or discuss answers below in comments.

Alcohol abuse

is defined as recurrent alcohol use where it impacts on work, school or home, social life, and/or physically through many diseases and symptoms, plus legal issues.

There are 20 questions, success score is 70%.

Good Luck

1. Alcohol may cause:*
- CNS depression
- Vasodilatation
- Hypoglycemia
- All of the Aboce
2. Alcohol:*
- Increases body temperature
- Increases body temperature
- Increases body temperature
- Increases body temperature
- Increases body temperature
- Increases body temperature
- Increases body temperature
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- Increases body temperature
- Increases body temperature
3. It is undesirable to take alcohol before going outdoors when it extremely cold, but it may be harmless to take some after coming into a warm place from the cold.*
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
4. The most common medical complication of alcohol abuse is:*
- Liver failure including liver cirrhosis
- Tolerance and physical dependence
- Generalized symmetric peripheral nerve injury, ataxia and dementia
- All of the above
5. Effect of moderate consumption of alcohol on plasma lipoproteins is:*
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
- Decreasing the concentration of high-density lipoproteins
6. Which of the following metabolic alterations may be associated with chronic alcohol abuse?*
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
- Severe loss of potassium and magnesium
7. Alcohol potentiates:*
- CNS depressants
- Vasodilatators
- Hypoglycemic agents
- All of the above
8. Which of the following drugs is most commonly used for causing a noxious reaction to alcohol by blocking its metabolism?*
- Disulfiram
- Morphine
- Diazepam
- Naltrexone
9. Which of the following agents is an inhibitor of aldehyde dehydrogenase?*
- Naltrexone
- Disulfiram
- Fomepizole
- Ethanol
10. Indicate the drug, which alters brain responses to alcohol:*
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
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- Naltrexone
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- Naltrexone
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- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
- Naltrexone
11. Which of the following agents is an opioid antagonist?*
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
- Amphetamine
12. Alcohol causes an acute increase in the local concentrations of:*
- Dopamine
- Opioid
- Serotonine
- All of the above
13. Management of alcohol withdrawal syndrome contains:*
- Restoration of potassium, magnesium and phosphate balance
- Thiamine therapy
- Substituting a long-acting sedative-hypnotic drug for alcohol
- All of the above
14. Indicate the drug, which decreases the craving for alcohol or blunts pleasurable “high” that comes with renewed drinking:*
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
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- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
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- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
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- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
- Disulfiram
15. The symptoms resulting from the combination of disulfiram and alcohol are:*
- Respiratory depression and seizures
- Nausea, vomiting
- Acute psychotic reactions
- Hypertensive crisis leading to cerebral ischemia and edema
16. The combination of disulfiram and ethanol leads to accumulation of:*
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
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- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
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- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
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- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
- Formaldehyde
17. The combination of naltrexone and disulfiram should be avoided since both drugs are potential hepatotoxins.*
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
- True
18. Indicate the “specific” modality of treatment for severe methanol poisoning:*
- Dialysis to enhance removal of methanol
- Alkalinization to counteract metabolic acidosis
- Suppression of metabolism by alcohol dehydrogenase to toxic products
- All of the above
19. Which of the following agents may be used as an antidote for ethylene glycol and methanol poisoning?*
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
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- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
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- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
- Fomepizol
20. The principal mechanism of fomepizol action is associated with inhibition of:*
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase
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