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DSST Substance Abuse

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. At first - tobacco was almost universally accepted as a ________.






2. Age ___ and older showed sharp drop in use.






3. Drugs are more likely to produce psychological dependence if they have a _____ onset.






4. The psychoactive ingredient found in the _____________ is mescaline.






5. ___________ disease is a degenerative neurological disease involving damage to dopamine neurons.

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6. Medical science has used opium as a pain reliever and also to treat _________ and dehydration caused by dysentery.






7. Most psychoactive drugs can be categorized as stimulants - depressants - opioids - hallucinogens - or _________________ agents.






8. College _________ had the lowest rate of current use of illicit drugs.






9. Crack is also known as '_____'.






10. Alcohol - barbiturates - inhalants - and sleeping pills and sedatives are all ___________.






11. A key belief of Alcoholics Anonymous is that alcohol dependence is an _________ - progressive disease characterized by a loss of control over drinking.






12. Clove cigarettes contain ___% more tobacco as well as more tar and nicotine than regular cigarettes.






13. Examples of opioid antagonists are _________ - nalorphine and naltrexone.






14. Other alcohols and oils contained in alcoholic beverages are called _________.






15. The effective dose (ED50) for LSD is many __________ of times smaller than that of other psychoactive drugs.






16. A BAC of 0.05 results in lowered alertness and a BAC of ____ results in death (lethal dose).






17. Psychological dependence develops most rapidly when the drug hits the ______ quickly.






18. Experimenters primarily restrict drug usage to ______________ settings and are motivated by peer pressure and curiosity.






19. The preoccupation phase is characterized by _________ concern about the drug.






20. The psychological effects of LSD - mescaline - and psilocybin can be blocked with ________.






21. Inhalant abuse can cause _______ - a state of oxygen deficiency in the body.






22. There are now more than 40 million former smokers in the United States - and about 90 percent of them report that they quit smoking _______ formal treatment programs.






23. Timothy Leary was a well known psychologist and proponent for the use of ___ in the 1960s.






24. Nicotine _______ are also known as transdermal nicotine systems.






25. Antipsychotic drugs are grouped into two categories--conventional antipsychotics and ________ antipsychotics.






26. ___ was originally used as a surgical anesthetic and has hallucinogenic effects different from LSD and mescaline (peyote cactus).






27. Drugs with a long half life stay in the body for a very long time without significantly diminishing in strength - for example - ________ ________.






28. There are more than one ________ products currently abused as inhalants.






29. Alcohol is the drug most often associated with _______ crimes; in many cases - it is present in both the assailant and the victim.






30. The 'cold turkey' method - in which the addict suffers the symptoms of withdrawal until the cravings for the drug are no longer felt - is the most ______ method of heroin detoxification.






31. The amount of drug that must be given to obtain a particular response is called _______.






32. Prodrugs are inactive in the original form and become active only after they are altered by the liver _______.






33. The most commonly abused types of drugs include _______ - tobacco - stimulants - hallucinogens and depressants.






34. Because their effect varies depending on the dose - CNS depressants are said to be _____ ________.






35. Most illicit _______________ consumed in the United States is produced in small laboratories which might exist for only a few days in a remote area before moving on.






36. In 1970 - the FDA limited the legal use of ____________ to three medical conditions: narcolepsy - ADHD - and short term weight reduction programs.






37. Alcoholics - who experience mild to _________ alcohol withdrawal symptoms - can usually be treated on an outpatient basis by a healthcare professional.






38. The somatic system carries sensory information into the CNS and carries ______ (movement) information back out.






39. In a recent study - 65.6% of full time employees reported _______ use within the past month.






40. Approximately __% of people who use marijuana become addicted to it.






41. The most widely used __________ is alcohol.






42. Precursors are the raw materials from which _________________ are made and are found circulating in the blood supply and generally in the brain.






43. Users of cocaine _____________ either 'snort' (sniff) or inject the drug intravenously.






44. Another word for ____________ is euphorigenic.






45. Opium has been used for approximately ____ years for both medical and recreational reasons.






46. Methamphetamine is also known as '______'.






47. A substance that has less potential for abuse than the drugs or other substances in schedules I and II - has a currently accepted medical use in the US - and whose abuse may lead to moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence






48. Drugs that block the action of morphine - heroin - or other opioids are called opioid ___________.






49. Contextual factors refer to how physical ______________ affect drug use; i.e. being at home vs. being in a rock concert or in a dance club.






50. Tobacco is responsible for ___ thousand US deaths each year.