PBHL 511 Final EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (Newest 2025) Opioid drugs bind to opiate receptors leading to analgesia (loss of pain). Why does drug addiction occur even after the individual has recovered from the illness/disorder which caused the pain? - Correct Answers ✅Opioid drugs stimulate the release of dopamine in the reward pathway regions of the brain. This causes structural and chemical changes in the brain which resemble the learning process.What are the stages in the stages of change model? - Correct Answers ✅Pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance Cancer treatment is an example of what level of prevention? - Correct Answers ✅Tertiary What are the levels of the Social Ecological Model ordered from "micro" to "macro"? - Correct Answers ✅Individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, policy What is the result of an action potential reaching the axon terminal of the presynaptic cell that has a chemical synapse?
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PBHL 511 Final EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% score (Newest 2025) Which of the following characterize some of the limits of the brain/disease paradigm of addiction? - Correct Answers ✅A.Underplays/ignores the impact of social determinants of health on the etiology of addiction.B.Creates a risk of stigmatizing addicts as diseased.C.Evidence for this paradigm has been challenged.D.All of the above.What principles of the Health Belief Model describe perceptions/beliefs about a disease or health condition? - Correct Answers ✅Perceived susceptibility, perceived severity Suppose the rate of overdose deaths due to heroin in Springfield County--where you are the Health Officer-- decreased sharply between 2016 and 2017. You know that the total number of people in the county did not change much. What might explain the change in rate in 2017? - Correct Answers ✅A.Many fewer people in the population used heroin in fatal quantities
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