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DSST Substance Abuse
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. For many years - ___________ sleeping pills were the drug of choice for people wishing to commit suicide.
Cocaine
Antagonists
Is Not
Barbiturate
2. The Native American Church's use of ______ has been controversial throughout the twentieth century.
Topical anesthesia
Alcohol
Psychoactive
Peyote
3. Pharmacological factors refer to how the drug actually affects the ____.
Autonomic
Dose response
Tobacco
Body
4. Marijuana (Cannabis) and hashish are both __________ controlled substances.
Biological
Directions
Schedule I
Psychedelics
5. Women are more likely to have problems with ______________ medicines.
Depressants
Inhalant
Toxic
Prescription
6. REM sleep is the sleep phase associated with _______.
Andes
Diarrhea
Dreams
Fermentation
7. Toluene is the psychoactive chemical found in many commonly abused inhalants such as glues - paints - thinners and _____ ______.
Leukoplakia
Nail polish
Benzodiazepines
Psychedelics
8. When alcohol is heated and the vapors are condensed into liquid form again - the process is called ____________.
Antidepressant
Atypical
Distillation
Molecular
9. _______________ are the most widely prescribed types Sedative-Hypnotics.
Benzodiazepines
Is Not
Positive
Mental
10. Nicotine withdrawal symptoms include craving for tobacco - ____________ - restlessness - and anxiety.
Delirium tremens
Al
Irritability
Dreams
11. Drugs with a high potential for abuse - with a currently accepted _______ use in the US - whose abuse may lead to severe physical or psychological dependence are listed under Schedule II.
Depressants
Medical
HCL
Anorexiants
12. Introduced as a ____ law - the Harrison Narcotic Act (1914) was not meant to be punitive and it made no reference to users of narcotics.
Alcohol
Tax
Analgesic
Cocaine
13. Legal _______ drugs - ranked by amount of money spent each year: Alcohol ($104 billion) Tobacco ($51.9 billion) Coffee - Tea and Cocoa ($5.7 billion)
PCP
Social
Gateway
Alcohol
14. Most psychoactive drugs are taken by one of three basic routes: by mouth - _________ - or inhalation.
Eliminate
Fluoxetine
Consequences
Injection
15. The three types of names that are applied to drugs are the _______ name - the chemical name - and the brand name.
Federal
Day
Relaxed
Generic
16. The autonomic nervous system - also referred to as the ANS - regulates the _____________ functions of the body and is divided into sympathetic and parasympathetic branches.
Antidepressant
Entactogens
Dangerous
Involuntary
17. Approximately 20 years ago - heroin was replaced by _______ as the most abused illicit drug in the US (other than marijuana).
Large
Cocaine
Toxic
1933
18. Three stimulants used by athletes in the early 1800s and 1900s were __________ - cocaine - and caffeine.
Congeners
High
Prescription
Strychnine
19. The amount of alcohol that can be metabolized by the liver is about 0.25 to 0.30 _______ per hour.
Ounces
San Salvador
Glutamate
Smoked
20. Many plant-produced chemicals have effects on the intestines or muscles; others alter ______ biochemistry.
Mesolimbic
Obesity
Brain
Irritability
21. Smoking is involved in about ___ percent of deaths from cardiovascular disease.
CYP450
30
25
Substitution
22. 95% pure alcohol is called _____________ spirits
Pharmacodynamic
Narcan
Grain neutral
Spinal cord
23. Perceived risk refers to the perceived ______________ of using the drug.
Hallucinogens
I
Consequences
Constipation
24. Drugs are more likely to produce psychological dependence if they have a _____ onset.
Decreased
Structural analogs
Rapid
Pleasurable
25. ________ is a drug used for treating alcoholics. It makes them extremely sick if they drink even a small amount of alcohol.
Escaping
Alcoholic
Antabuse
Eliminate
26. Also known as narcotics - _______ are a group of analgesic drugs that cause a dreamlike state; high doses can induce sleep.
Cocaine
Football
Opioids
Expectancy
27. Volatile substances will __________ at low temperatures.
Graduates
Benzodiazepines
Evaporate
Adolescents
28. To remove the caffeine - unroasted coffee beans are soaked in an organic ________.
Medical
Epileptic seizures
Psychoactive
Solvent
29. Aspirin is one of the most popular OTC drugs in the US. It is used for its analgesic - anti-____________and antipyretic effects.
Inflammatory
Mushrooms
Methamphetamine
Analgesic
30. The neurotransmitter ____ is found in most areas of the CNS and exerts generalized inhibitory functions.
Al
Women
Heroin
GABA
31. The human body strives to maintain its internal environment within a certain range (temperature - blood pressure - etc); this ___________ is called homeostasis.
Decrease
Neurotransmitters
Potent
Equilibrium
32. _____________ classified as Phantastica are not very toxic and allow the user to remain in communication with the present world.
Muscle tone
Hallucinogens
Cancer
Phenothiazines
33. Traffic fatalities involving alcohol have _________ since 1980.
Antabuse
Decreased
Stimulant
Pharmacodynamic
34. 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.
Opiate
Norepinephrine
Surroundings
Without
35. Severe alcoholism often results in ____________ as a result of decreased caloric intake by alcoholics.
Ounces
Malnutrition
Moderate
Breathing
36. Psychological dependence is closely related to the concept of _________ reinforcement - which states that if a behavior is reliably followed by a stimulus - it leads to an increase in the behavior.
Positive
Malnutrition
Involuntary
Weeks
37. The legal opioid methadone - is used to treat heroin dependence by reducing severity of __________ symptoms.
Withdrawal
Medical
Eyes
Epileptic seizures
38. The important Xanthine varieties are caffeine - theophylline - and _____________.
Special K
PET
Theobromine
95
39. Drugs with a long half life stay in the body for a very long time without significantly diminishing in strength - for example - ________ ________.
Drinking
MDMA
Blood thinners
Addictive
40. ___________ is a precancerous lesion caused by chewing tobacco.
Dose response
Mental retardation
Leukoplakia
Hypoventilation
41. The psychological effects of LSD - mescaline - and psilocybin can be blocked with ________.
Antidepressant
Mental
Heroin
Chlorpromazine
42. In laboratory studies - the balanced placebo design is used to separate the pharmacological effects of alcohol from the alcohol __________ effects.
30
Inexpensive
Expectancy
Naloxone
43. Because their effect varies depending on the dose - CNS depressants are said to be _____ ________.
Active
Glutamate
Toluene
Dose dependent
44. _________ is a neurotransmitter associated with aggression and regulation of body weight.
Epileptic seizures
Fentanyl
Serotonin
Dietary supplements
45. 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.
Blood thinners
Andes
Common
Synthetic
46. The effective dose (ED50) for LSD is many __________ of times smaller than that of other psychoactive drugs.
Low
Dentists
Glutamate
Thousands
47. ____________ drugs are drug compounds (substances) that affect the central nervous system and alter consciousness and/or perceptions.
CYP450
Placebo
Psychedelics
Psychoactive
48. Most of the integration of information - learning and ______ occur in the central nervous system.
Taxes
Physical
Body
Memory
49. The introduction of antipsychotic drugs have caused a dramatic ________ in the population of mental hospitals.
Body
Chewing
Decrease
Medical
50. Ice is a form of methamphetamine that can be ______.
Peers
30
Smoked
Glutamate