4715570747 | Origin of drug abuse | 2240BC Hammurabi Code | 0 | |
4715571547 | Number of people who have used illicit drugs in 2006 | 111Million (45%) | 1 | |
4715571987 | How many workers in a month report alcohol use? | 65% | 2 | |
4715573495 | What is not a specific factor affecting how a user experiences a drug? | personal | 3 | |
4715574506 | Police and detectives | lowest level of illicit drug use | 4 | |
4715575320 | Drugs that result from altered chemical structures of already existing illicit drugs. | structural analogs | 5 | |
4715576095 | The use of _______drugs causes far more deaths, sickness, violent crimes, economic loss, and other social problems combined. | licit | 6 | |
4715583349 | The internalization of attitudes, values, and behaviors that are needed in order to become participating members in conventional society. | socialization | 7 | |
4715583907 | Drug use is a collective attempt to gain social status and prestige within a peer group. | social and cultural support perspectives | 8 | |
4715585095 | How people learn patterns of behavior from the attitudes of society. | social learning theory | 9 | |
4715585623 | Drug use is a largely peer-generated activity. | imitation theory | 10 | |
4715586432 | A person's day-to-day social psychological relations is a primary cause for drug use. | social influence theory | 11 | |
4715587115 | The structural organization of a society, peer group, or subculture is responsible for drug use. | structural influence theory | 12 | |
4715588219 | Psychological theories tend to focus more on the ______ state of the individual. | internal | 13 | |
4715588592 | Sociological theories focus on factors that are ______. | external | 14 | |
4715589950 | It is believed that most drugs with abuse potential enhance pleasure centers by | releasing dopamine | 15 | |
4715590428 | Percent of full-time drug users: | 70% | 16 | |
4715590725 | The word addiction is derived from the Latin verb addicere, meaning: | the process of binding things | 17 | |
4715592186 | The decline of patent medicines. | Pure Food and Drug Act 1906 | 18 | |
4715592788 | Thalidomide | was used as a sedative for pregnant women | 19 | |
4715593544 | Phase I clinical trials: | healthy volunteers and eligible sickly volunteers, used to determine the safety of a drug | 20 | |
4715595512 | Orphan Drug Law | tax breaks to companies if drugs developed to treat rare diseases | 21 | |
4715596523 | Lowest abuse potential | Schedule V Drug | 22 | |
4715597156 | The most common example of this strategy is the use of the narcotic methadone to treat the heroin addict. | Replacement therapy | 23 | |
4715598145 | An over-the-counter drug not generally recognized as safe or effective for the claimed therapeutic indication is classified as: | Category II Drug | 24 | |
4715599314 | Maintenance of internal stability. | homeostasis | 25 | |
4715601307 | Due to damage of dopamine neurons in the basal ganglia. | Parkinson's disease | 26 | |
4715602238 | It serves as the CNS control center for the autonomic nervous system, and maintains homeostasis in the body. | hypothalamus | 27 | |
4715603800 | limbic system | Located in the brain, it regulates memory and emotional activities. | 28 | |
4715611141 | Amount of yearly deaths from mixing alcohol with CNS depressants. | 3000 | 29 | |
4715613583 | CNS depressant used to relieve anxiety | sedative | 30 | |
4715614519 | CNS depressant | sleep aid, cause anesthesia, relieve anxiety | 31 | |
4715615218 | benzodiazepines | treats neurosis, alleviates back pain, aid in withdrawal from alcohol | 32 | |
4715618167 | Used to relieve symptoms of allergies and motion sickness | antihistamines | 33 | |
4715621830 | The consumable type of alcohol that is the psychoactive ingredient in alcoholic beverages | ethanol | 34 | |
4715625438 | What education level is most likely to be classified as a current alcohol user throughout their lives? | college | 35 | |
4715628914 | The behavior exhibited and expected while under the direct use of alcohol, determined by the norms and expectations that prevail in a particular culture. | drunken comportment | 36 | |
4715629571 | Percent of family disputes caused by alcohol in 1996? | 42% | 37 | |
4715630442 | The social institution that bears the most costs of alcohol abuse. | family | 38 | |
4715630743 | What drug is related to over half of highway fatalities? | alcohol | 39 | |
4715631958 | The ________ has fewer occasions of uncontrolled drinking than the alcoholic; however, the drinking remains uncontrollable when it occurs. | alcohol abuser | 40 | |
4715633329 | Amount of yearly deaths alcohol is responsible for. | 100,000 | 41 | |
4715637800 | The depression of cerebral cortex functioning, resulting in a suspension of rational or thoughtful constraints on behavior. | disinhibition | 42 | |
4724633661 | Neurotransmitters in the brain and pituitary gland that have morphine-like qualities. | endorphins | 43 | |
4724634303 | When a drug causes impairment in judgment to the point that otherwise normal behaviors become dangerous. | behavioral toxiticity | 44 | |
4724635770 | A friend has admitted that when he was younger he occasionally used LSD. He now occasionally will experience recurrence of some of the effects of the drug though he has not used in years. | flashback | 45 | |
4724638169 | A person who has developed tolerance for oxycodone will also have a tolerance for which drug? | codeine | 46 | |
4724638676 | A person with 50mg of alcohol in 100ml of blood would have a blood alcohol level of | .05 | 47 | |
4724642171 | Amphetamine's first medical use was as a treatment for which medical condition? | asthma | 48 | |
4724642640 | Before the 1900s, the term ________ best described the U.S. government's approach to most drugs. | laissez-faire (hands off) | 49 | |
4724645080 | By what brand name was meprobamate best known in the 1950s? | milltown, equanil | 50 | |
4724646464 | Chemicals released by neurons that trigger a response | neurotransmitters | 51 | |
4724646691 | Cocaine extracted into an organic solvent is one way of creating a substance known as | freebase | 52 | |
4724647488 | Dependence is more likely to develop rapidly for people taking amphetamines in what manner? | Large doses taken intravenously | 53 | |
4724648197 | Drugs on which schedule currently have NO medical use in the United States? | Schedule I | 54 | |
4724649036 | During most of the 1970s, which of the following prescription medications was the leading seller? | valium | 55 | |
4724649448 | For all age groups, the most commonly used drug is | alcohol | 56 | |
4724652745 | How much less alcohol does light beer usually have than regular beer? | 10% | 57 | |
4724653754 | If a dose of a drug has an ED50 what does this mean? | effective on 50% of the patients/animals | 58 | |
4724657200 | In an attempt to help rehabilitate addicted persons, Congress voted to create two farms in what year? | 1935 | 59 | |
4724659752 | MDMA is known by what street name | ecstacy | 60 | |
4724660078 | Most common drug screening tests are best verified by which follow up test? | gas chromatography/mass spectrometry | 61 | |
4724660471 | On which schedule is marijuana currently listed? | Schedule I | 62 | |
4724661457 | One of the earliest medical uses for cocaine was | depression, stomach ailments, anesthetic | 63 | |
4724662982 | People who choose to drive after smoking marijuana are most likely to be affected by impairment in their ability to do what? | maintain speed, concentrate | 64 | |
4724664716 | Prozac and Haldol are examples of which classification of drugs? | Psychotherapeutics | 65 | |
4724666106 | Rohypnol is a benzodiazepine, also known by what slang term? | date rape drug | 66 | |
4724666406 | Simply stated, a "psychoactive drug" is one that alters | mood and consciousness | 67 | |
4724668652 | The lowest dose of a drug in which effects are observed | threshold dose | 68 | |
4724668904 | The quality that mos drug users share in common | no respect for conventional ways | 69 | |
4724672235 | The technical name for chronic mental impairments caused by long-term heavy alcohol use is called what? | alcoholic dementia (Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome) | 70 | |
4724672719 | The part of the nervous system that regulates involuntary bodily functions | autonomic nervous system | 71 | |
4724673511 | What is the % of 90 proof whiskey? | 45% | 72 | |
4724674435 | What percent of inhaled nicotine is absorbed? | 90% | 73 | |
4724674822 | Steroids that mimic the effects of male hormones in performance enhancement but do not emphasize the sexual effects? | anabolic | 74 | |
4724675128 | Which of the following describes alcohol's effect on a person in extreme cold? | warm but loosing body heat | 75 | |
4724677076 | Which of the following drugs is known to have metabolites that are almost as active as the parent drug? | marijuana | 76 | |
4724678266 | Which of the following indicates the difference between morphine and heroin? | heroin is more lipid soluble and 3x's more potent | 77 | |
4724687487 | Which of the following is indicative of Stage 4 of alcohol withdrawal? | seizures | 78 | |
4724687872 | Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a successful social influence drug prevention program? | involving law enforcement | 79 | |
4724688786 | Which of the following is NOT a classification of psychoactive drugs? | narcotics | 80 | |
4724688942 | Which of the following is NOT a condition commonly treated with narcotics? | dysentery | 81 | |
4724689585 | Which of the following is NOT a current use for benzodiazepines? | anticonvulsant | 82 | |
4724691866 | Which of the following is NOT a way in which some consumed alcohol when excreted from the body is unchanged by the body? | stool | 83 | |
4724692203 | Which of the following is the most potent preparation of marijuana? | charas | 84 | |
4724692468 | Which of the following is the proper chemical notation for the chemical composition of the anesthesia known as "laughing gas"? | NO (Nitrous oxide) | 85 | |
4724693031 | Which of the following ways of administering a drug would be preferred if a person required a slow and steady dose of a medication? | topical patch | 86 | |
4724693342 | Which of the following ways of ingesting cocaine results in the fastest experience of the effects of the drug? | smoking | 87 | |
4724693784 | Which of the following would slow the absorption of alcohol in the body? | food and water | 88 | |
4724694072 | Which stage of drug treatment involves helping a person accommodate physically to the absence of the drug in the body? | detoxification | 89 | |
4724694304 | You have an acquaintance who has been acting panicked, seems suspicious and paranoid, seems confused about some decisions, and is agitated to the point that you are afraid he might be violent. Knowing what you know about drug use, you might suspect your friend is experiencing the behavioral toxicity of what drug? | amphetamines | 90 | |
4725285872 | Use of MPTP causes which of the following diseases? | Parkinson's | 91 | |
4725287135 | Buprenorphine | used to treat morphine overdoses | 92 | |
4725291764 | Methadone | addictive as heroine if injected | 93 | |
4725314136 | differential association | refers to how individuals are socialized into the perceptions of a group; this can include the perceptions of drug effects and how one should respond. | 94 | |
4725287996 | Methadone | addictive as heroine if injected | 95 |
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