Privacy and Confidentiality
This is the maximum period of time that a consent for the release of information can be valid.
What is one year?
The ____ nervous system becomes under-active after consuming a depressant like alcohol.
What is Central?
This is the minimum number of DSM criteria that have to endorsed to lead to a diagnosis of Substance Use Disorder, Severe.
What is 6?
This is the ASAM Level intended as "prevention", and is not a valid placement for anyone with a substance use diagnosis.
Level .05
This is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the World located in Egypt.
What are the Pyramids of Giza?
This is the response you give when someone calls requesting information about one of your clients and you don't have a signed consent.
What is "I cannot confirm or deny that ___ is a client here"?
This incredibly potent opioid was originally designed to treat severe chronic pain, and can lead to accidental overdose.
What is Fentanyl?
This is the minimum number of months without symptoms required for a 'in early remission' specifier.
What is 3?
This is the Dimension that assesses Recovery Environment.
What is Dimension 6?
This is the Williams Sister who has won more Grand Slam titles.
Who is Serena?
This is the name of the federal statute that dictates privacy requirements for information pertaining to substance use history, diagnosis, and treatment. (abbreviation is just fine)
What is CFR-42 Part 2?
This refers to powder cocaine which has been reduced to a more basic form, and typically has a stronger effect on the brain.
What is crack cocaine?
This is the specifier used after Opioid Use Disorder that indicates that someone is on Methadone, Suboxone, Subutex or Vivtrol.
What is 'on maintenance therapy'?
This is what 'MRT' stands for.
What is 'Moral Reconation Therapy'?
This is the symbol for potassium on the periodic table.
What is K?
This is what HIPAA stands for.
What is Health Information Portability and Accountability Act?
This is the part of the brain that is responsible for committing the events around us into memory, and whose function is affected by both alcohol and cannabis.
What is the hippocampus?
Before the DSM-V was created, if someone engaged in problematic alcohol use he/she might be diagnosed with one of these two diagnoses, which no longer exist.
What is alcohol abuse or alcohol dependence?
This is the information covered in Dimension 3 of the ASAM.
Emotional/Behavioral Conditions and Complications
This is what 'HTTP' stands for.
What is HyperText Transfer Protocol?
This is required 100% of the time for someone to give their consent for exchange of information.
What is a signature?
This is the medical term for the "wiggling" motion of the eye when it is tracking back and forth, and can be a good indicator of alcohol intoxication.
What is nystagmus?
This diagnostic criterion for substance use disorder is the only one that can be present currently and doesn't disqualify a person for a remission diagnosis.
What is craving?
This is what ASAM stands for.
American Society of Addiction Medicine
This country produces the most coffee in the world.
What is Brazil?