CH.36 - SUDs and Infectious Disease

Question 1

As a group, persons with substance use disorders are _____ as likely to go to the emergency room

Answer 1

twice

Question 2

If an intravenous drug abuser should attempt to clean the “rig” by rinsing it out with tap water…this can _____?_____

Answer 2

this can result in bacterial contamination of the needle since tap water is not sterile

Question 3

Available evidence suggests that the virus that causes AIDS:

Answer 3

is a virus that “jumped” from an animal species to humans.

Question 4

Within the course of 50 years, AIDS went from an obscure disease found only in isolated parts of Africa to:

Answer 4

The 4th most common cause of death globally

Question 5

In the stage of “asymptomatic infection”:

Answer 5

the infection is there, but can only be detected by appropriate blood tests

Question 6

In the past 500,000 years, Tuberculosis is thought to have caused _____?____ premature deaths

Answer 6

1 billion

Question 7

In the infected person, Tuberculosis is found:

Answer 7

most often in the lungs, but can be found virtually anywhere in the body

Question 8

Which of the following is true of Hepatitis type A?

a) it is never transmitted by sharing intravenous needles
b) exposure to blood or other body fluids from an infected person in not a danger
c) five percent of cases in U.S involve sharing intravenous needles

Answer 8

C) 5% of cases in the US involve the sharing of intravenous needles

Question 9

Hepatitis “B” virus is a:

Answer 9

Blood-borne disease

Question 10

In addition to being a blood-borne pathogen, the virus that causes Hepatitis B is a _____?_____

Answer 10

sexually transmitted disease