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DSST Substance Abuse
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Its believed that antipsychotic drugs work by blocking D2 ________ receptors.
Contextual
Smoking
Toxic
Dopamine
2. Benzodiazepines are classified by their ________ of action.
Barley
Heroin
Drinking
Duration
3. Opioids are also known as _________.
Physical
High
Hallucinogen
Narcotics
4. Current medical applications for cocaine are as a local __________ for ear - nose - and throat procedures.
Hallucinogens
Anesthetic
Heart beat
Equilibrium
5. The somatic system carries sensory information into the CNS and carries ______ (movement) information back out.
Heart attacks
Dopamine
Motor
Codeine
6. A person who has narcolepsy falls ______ as often as 50 times a day.
Asleep
Muscle tone
Brain tissue
More
7. The CNS consists of the brain and _____________.
LSD
Spinal cord
Inflammatory
Explosive
8. Hashish is the most ______ cannabis preparation - it's THC level can be as high as 28%.
Potent
Molecular
Healthcare
Alcohol
9. Two brain imaging techniques are ___ and MRI.
Theraputic
Consequences
Steroids
PET
10. The primary purpose for the creation of the 1938 Federal Food - Drug - and Cosmetic Act was ___________.
Drug safety
Tranquilizers
Cocaine
Sedative hypnotic
11. The active ingredient found in OTC stimulants is ________.
Hallucinogens
Opioids
Clozapine
Caffeine
12. The symptoms for withdrawal from any _________________ is similar to symptoms for alcohol withdrawal.
25
Diagnostic
Sedative hypnotic
Dopamine
13. _______ professionals and their staff are the most likely to abuse nitrous oxide.
Medical
Evaporate
Diagnostic
Safely
14. ________ - benzodiazepines and opioid narcotics are also used for this purpose.
Alcohol
Pharmacological
Poorer
Equilibrium
15. _____________ classified as Phantastica are not very toxic and allow the user to remain in communication with the present world.
Designer
Amino acids
Dentists
Hallucinogens
16. 18.2% of unemployed persons report ________ drug use compared to only 7.9% of those with full time jobs and 10.7% of part time employees.
Watery
Epileptic seizures
Gateway
Illicit
17. The most widely used licit social drug is _______.
Alcohol
Psychoactive
Hallucinogen
Heart Disease
18. The active ingredients for half of the prescriptions filled consist of only ____ drugs.
Toxic
Behavioral tolerance
Breathing
200
19. Examples of Schedule II drugs include ________ - opium - and amphetamines.
95
Anesthetics
Cocaine
Mucous membranes
20. The use of alcohol is statistically associated with homicide - assault - _______ violence and suicide
PCP
Family
James
Rock
21. Drug testing in sports began in the ____s.
1960
Loco weed
Illicit
Large
22. The DEA is the primary _______ agency responsible for enforcing U.S. drug laws.
Anorexiants
Relaxed
Federal
Caffeine
23. The most commonly abused types of drugs include _______ - tobacco - stimulants - hallucinogens and depressants.
Alcohol
Opioid
Addiction
Autonomic
24. By the 1850s - the temperance movement supported not only a ban on distilled spirits but also a ban on all __________ beverages.
HCL
Alcoholic
Replacing
Tissue
25. _______ is absorbed most quickly through smoking and intravenous injection.
Cocaine
Depressants
1933
Phyiscal
26. _______ % of all US deaths are tobacco-related.
Lungs
20
Year
Sudden sniffing death
27. Most psychoactive drugs can be categorized as stimulants - depressants - opioids - hallucinogens - or _________________ agents.
Chewing
Women
British East India
Psychotherapeutic
28. Cocaine ___ (Hydrochloride) is water soluble and can easily be injected intravenously.
34
Rate
10
HCL
29. In a recent study - 65.6% of full time employees reported _______ use within the past month.
Special K
Anxiety
Peyote cactus
Alcohol
30. A key belief of Alcoholics Anonymous is that alcohol dependence is an _________ - progressive disease characterized by a loss of control over drinking.
Norepinephrine
Incurable
Blood pressure
Cost
31. Although they were originally called _____________ - antipsychotics are drugs used to treat psychosis without producing drowsiness.
Preschool
Inexpensive
Tax
Tranquilizers
32. Considerable evidence supports the idea that some degree of vulnerability to alcohol dependence might be _________.
Psychological
Inherited
Rate
Lipid solubility
33. _________ is a neurotransmitter associated with aggression and regulation of body weight.
Serotonin
PET
Legal Instrumental Use
Patent medicines
34. A recent study indicated that persons aged 26 to __ were most likely to have used marijuana sometime during their life.
Muscle
Lipid soluble
Addiction
34
35. Opioids ________ the central nervous system (CNS).
One-third
Unknown
Depress
Prozac
36. Timothy Leary was a well known psychologist and proponent for the use of ___ in the 1960s.
LSD
10
Consequences
6 -000
37. Damage to the neurotransmitter _____________ is associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Paradoxica
Acetylcholine
Biological
Active
38. The most _________ form of alcohol withdrawal is called delirium tremens and occurs in about 5 percent of people who have withdrawal symptoms.
Dangerous
Codeine
Is Not
More
39. Heart rate and blood pressure are two of the many functions regulated by the _________ nervous system.
Disease
Contextual
Autonomic
Somatic
40. With _______ parodoxical effects include bizarre uninhibited behavior - rage - hostility and paranoia.
Benzodiazepines
Mesolimbic
Low
48
41. Some alcohol withdrawal symptoms can last for up to several ______.
Congeners
Illegal Recreational Use
Weeks
Phenothiazines
42. FDA approved THC in capsule form is called _______.
Pleasure
Ethanol
Marinol
Transmitter
43. Prozac is the brand name for the antidepressant drug __________. It inhibits the reuptake of the neurotransmitter serotonin.
Hypnotics
Diagnostic
Fluoxetine
Enzymes
44. The time course of a drug's action depends on many things - including how the drug is administered - how quickly it is ______ - and how it is eliminated from the body.
Codeine
San Salvador
120 pound woman
Absorbed
45. In laboratory studies - the balanced placebo design is used to separate the pharmacological effects of alcohol from the alcohol __________ effects.
Potent
Expectancy
Anxiety
Leukoplakia
46. Columbus was presented tobacco by natives of ____ __________ in 1492 and he brought it with him back to Spain.
Antitussives
San Salvador
Moderate
Depressants
47. To remove the caffeine - unroasted coffee beans are soaked in an organic ________.
Tobacco
Designer
Solvent
Pharmacodynamic
48. Depressants _________ the rate of various vital physiological activities - especially those of the central nervous system.
Cocaine
200
Schedule III
Decrease
49. Urine drug tests are relatively ___________ screening tests that detect a variety of abused substances or their metabolites in urine.
Memory
Inexpensive
Atypical
Cigarettes
50. _____________ Syndrome is a collection of physical and behavioral abnormalities that seems to be caused by the presence of alcohol during development of the fetus.
One-third
Fetal Alcohol
One half
Antidepressant