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DSST Substance Abuse

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1. Commonly called '_______ _____' - nitrous oxide is a gaseous anesthetic first used in the early 1800s in medicine and surgery.






2. Cocaine is absorbed so well into ________ __________ that it remains in use for surgery in the nasal - laryngeal - and esophageal regions.






3. Excessive use of caffeine is called _________.






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






5. _________________ are commonly prescribed for anxiety disorders.






6. Also known as synthetic drugs or synthetic ________ - these are designed to get around existing drug laws. Often they involve modifying the molecular structure of an existing drug. Ecstasy is an example of a designer drug (today it's illegal and is a






7. Ecstasy falls under the category of synthetic or _________ drugs.






8. Opioids such as morphine and _______ are the drugs most often used for acute pain - such as short-term pain after surgery.






9. Drugs are said to be ______ ________ when tolerance to one reduces the effectiveness of each of the others.






10. Ketamine is sometimes known as '_________' - has effects similar to PCP and is commonly used in veterinary hospitals as an anesthetic.






11. With sales exceeding $160 billion a year - the legal ______________ industry is one of the largest and most profitable industries in the United States.






12. LSD - PCP and mescaline are _____________.






13. The ________ the amount needed to get a particular effect - the more potent the drug.






14. An irregular _____ _____ is called arrhythmia.






15. Physical dependence is related to _______________ tolerance.






16. Considerable evidence supports the idea that some degree of vulnerability to alcohol dependence might be _________.






17. Pharmacological factors refer to how the drug actually affects the ____.






18. With _______ parodoxical effects include bizarre uninhibited behavior - rage - hostility and paranoia.






19. In a double blind procedure - neither the patient nor the doctor know whether the subject is receiving a _______ or an experimental drug.






20. The autonomic nervous system - also referred to as the ANS - regulates the _____________ functions of the body and is divided into sympathetic and parasympathetic branches.






21. _____ _______ studied cocaine for its potential as a treatment for a variety of ailments including depression and morphine dependence.






22. GHB is most well-known for its use in substances that disable users and make them vulnerable to sexual assault. _________ is another drug of this type.






23. Most illicit drugs cause an addiction in both the mother and the infant because drugs (cocaine - barbiturates - heroin - etc) pass through the _________ and reach the baby.






24. Drug use can be detected in urine for up to 5 days - in saliva for up to 1 day and in hair samples for up to ___ days.






25. One of the most common opioid side effects is ____________.






26. The SSRI Fluoxetine is the most widely prescribed ______________ drug.






27. Dopamine - acetylcholine - norepinephrine - serotonin - GABA - glutamate - and endorphins are all _________________ associated with the actions of the psychoactive drugs.






28. The three types of names that are applied to drugs are the _______ name - the chemical name - and the brand name.






29. Opioid overdose can be diagnosed on the basis of the opioid triad: coma - depressed respiration - and ________ pupils.






30. Originally it was believed that the occurrences of paranoid psychosis in cocaine and amphetamine users was caused by a pre-existing _______ condition or due to sleep deprivation.






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






32. King ______ of England wrote a antitobacco pamphlet and he taxed tobacco to attempt to limit its use.






33. Millions of marijuana users never go beyond the _______ drugs.






34. The fourth stage of drug addiction is __________.






35. ________ antipsychotics are effective at reducing both the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia.






36. Benzodiazepines are classified by their ________ of action.






37. Methyl alcohol is made from ____.






38. Alcohol ______ - is the tendency for someone under the influence of alcohol to focus on the here and now and to pay less attention to long term consequences.






39. Columbus was presented tobacco by natives of ____ __________ in 1492 and he brought it with him back to Spain.






40. Heroin is classified as a schedule __________ drug.






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






42. The withdrawal symptoms for a ______ user whose drug usage has consisted of a low daily dose resemble a mild case of intestinal flu.






43. _________ ________ occurs after using a nasal spray regularly for longer than the recommended period.






44. _______ professionals and their staff are the most likely to abuse nitrous oxide.






45. The most common active ingredients contained in OTC sleep aids are ______________.






46. Legal instrumental - illegal instrumental - legal recreational and illegal recreational use are the 4 types of drug use according to ___________.






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






48. The branch of the _________ system involved in flight or fight reactions is called the sympathetic branch.






49. The four stages of alcohol withdrawal are _______ - hallucinations - delusions and seizures.






50. The two major ________ pathways damaged in Parkinson's disease are acetylcholine and the nigrostriatal pathways.