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DSST Substance Abuse

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Users of cocaine _____________ either 'snort' (sniff) or inject the drug intravenously.






2. Smoking is involved in about ___ percent of deaths from cardiovascular disease.






3. The symptoms for withdrawal from any _________________ is similar to symptoms for alcohol withdrawal.






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






5. _____________ classified as Phantastica are not very toxic and allow the user to remain in communication with the present world.






6. The opium plant contains both morphine and _______.






7. Amnesiac and anesthesia effects are common among hypnotics when used in _____ doses.






8. Despite popular belief to the contrary - heroin is not __________ addictive.






9. The concentration of _______ found in the blood is called the BAC.






10. Marijuana is known to lower intraocular (within the eye) pressure associated with ________.






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






12. Psychotic behavior resulting from a known ________ cause is called an organic disorder.






13. Drug induced respiratory depression is also called _______________ and is a common type of drug overdose death.






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






15. FDA approved THC in capsule form is called _______.






16. 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.






17. The FDA restricted amphetamine use to _____ ______ weight reduction programs in 1970.






18. Most of the integration of information - learning and ______ occur in the central nervous system.






19. _________________ are commonly prescribed for anxiety disorders.






20. For many years - ___________ sleeping pills were the drug of choice for people wishing to commit suicide.






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






22. The half life of _______ is 60 to 90 minutes.






23. Drugs with a high potential for abuse - no currently accepted medical use in the US - and declared unsafe are listed under Schedule _.






24. Almost ___ % of 8th graders have abused an inhalant sometime in their life.






25. The Soviets were the first to use ________ to build up their athletes.






26. Flashbacks are the recurrence of certain aspects of the drug experience weeks or months after an individual has taken ___.






27. Drugs include any substances which can impair a person's ability to _______ function in society.






28. ______________ and antipsychotics are two groups of drugs used to treat the symptoms associated with psychosis.






29. The two categories of psychoactive drugs are ______ (legal) and illicit (illegal).






30. Marijuana is the most commonly used ________ drug.






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






32. Jimsonweed a potent hallucinogenic plant and is also known as ____ _____.






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






34. Another word for ____________ is psychedelic.






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






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






37. ________ - tobacco and marijuana are commonly called gateway drugs.






38. 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.






39. The shorter the drug half life - the more __________ it is.






40. Naloxone or __________ is used to reverse the depressed respiration resulting from an opioid overdose.






41. Herbs and _________ were used by early Greeks in Olympic games to enhance their performance.






42. Usually it takes approximately ___ years of heavy drinking of the equivalent of a pint or more of whiskey a day to develop cirrhosis of the liver.






43. Heroin is classified as a schedule __________ drug.






44. ___________ is a precancerous lesion caused by chewing tobacco.






45. _________ is a neurotransmitter associated with aggression and regulation of body weight.






46. Physical dependence involves the need to continue using the drug to avoid __________ symptoms which include sickness and discomfort.






47. To remove the caffeine - unroasted coffee beans are soaked in an organic ________.






48. When using snuff or chewing tobacco - nicotine is absorbed through the ______ lining of the mouth.






49. _______________ and Ritalin are two drugs commonly used to treat ADHD.






50. Nicotine nasal spray - nicotine inhalers and _________ are smoking cessation aids which require a doctor's prescription.