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DSST Substance Abuse
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Flashbacks are the recurrence of certain aspects of the drug experience weeks or months after an individual has taken ___.
Amphetamines
Crack
LSD
Weight
2. The symptoms for withdrawal from any _________________ is similar to symptoms for alcohol withdrawal.
Sedative hypnotic
Directions
10
Thousands
3. Acne and baldness in men - decreased breast size and facial hair in women are some of the side effects associated with ________________ use.
Pharmaceutical
Alcohol
Anabolic steroid
Hallucinogens
4. ________ is a substance that is responsible for more adverse health consequences and death than any other.
Tobacco
Dose response
Nicotine
Sigmund Freud
5. Drug _____ is to use a drug in a situation - manner or amount that it causes social - psychological - physical or occupational problems.
Dopamine
Parkinson's
Transdermal patch
Abuse
6. There are more than one ________ products currently abused as inhalants.
Thousand
Fetal Alcohol
Magic mushrooms
Cocaine
7. Drug testing in sports began in the ____s.
Schedule III
1960
Antihistamines
48
8. In the late 1800s the typical ______ user was a middle aged white woman who functioned well and was adjusted to her life as a wife and mother.
Opioid
Placenta
Dependence
Barley
9. _________ is often referred to as the brain's major excitatory neurotransmitter.
Hallucinogen
Biological
Glutamate
Solvents
10. The primary purpose for the creation of the 1938 Federal Food - Drug - and Cosmetic Act was ___________.
Drug safety
Inexpensive
Hallucinogens
Is Not
11. Opiates are drugs that contain _____ or one of its derivatives.
Opium
Antifreeze
Insomnia
Homeostasis
12. Amphetamines can be taken orally - intravenously or by _______.
Strychnine
Smoking
Autonomic
Watery
13. Cannabis (marijuana) - Anabolic Steroids - Inhalants/Organic Solvents and narcotics are also found to be among the most ________ abused drugs.
Psychoactive
Commonly
Psychoactive
Months
14. The first stage of drug addiction is ______.
Fentanyl
Pharmaceutical
Relief
Tobacco
15. 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.
Common
Entactogens
Heroin
Epileptic seizures
16. Inhalant abuse can cause _______ - a state of oxygen deficiency in the body.
Hypoxia
Abuse
4-6
Biological
17. In 1970 - the FDA limited the legal use of ____________ to three medical conditions: narcolepsy - ADHD - and short term weight reduction programs.
Rock
Amphetamines
CYP450
Surroundings
18. College _________ had the lowest rate of current use of illicit drugs.
Graduates
Hallucinations
Year
Skin
19. The legal opioid methadone - is used to treat heroin dependence by reducing severity of __________ symptoms.
Withdrawal
Sudden sniffing death
Dose response
High
20. Tremors and rigidity are two symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Similar damage to the dopamine neurons can occur as a side effect of some ______________ drugs.
Equilibrium
Autonomic
Insomnia
Psychoactive
21. ___ involves using electric shock to induce convulsions in mental patients.
Antihistamines
Unknown
Ethanol
ECT - Electroconvulsive therapy
22. The pharmacological term for alcohol is _______.
Constant
One hour
Addiction
Ethanol
23. ______________ are unhealthy because they interfere with REM sleep.
Graduates
Sleeping pills
Brain tissue
Synesthesia
24. Small doses of ______________ help narcoleptics stay alert.
Cross tolerant
Diagnostic
Amphetamines
Inexpensive
25. The amount of drug that must be given to obtain a particular response is called _______.
Alcohol
Common
Potency
Antitussives
26. LSD is one of the most potent ____________ drugs.
Psychoactive
Opium
Alcohol
Atypical
27. Nicotine is exceptionally _____ and has been used as an insecticide.
Toxic
Anesthetics
Depress
Recreational
28. In the relief stage - a user experiences satisfaction by _________ from negative feelings such as boredom - anger - stress - fatigue and loneliness.
Detoxification
Heroin
Escaping
100
29. The most important drug-metabolizing enzymes found in the liver belong to a group known as the ______ family of enzymes.
10
Peers
CYP450
Heroin
30. Stimulants can maintain wakefulness - give a user a sense of increased energy - decrease ________ and temporarily elevate the mood.
Artificial
Appetite
100
Decreased
31. 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.
Absorbed
Healthcare
Toxic
Weight control
32. A typical progression of drug use starts with ___________ and alcohol - and then marijuana before moving on to the stronger drugs - which is why these drugs are often called 'gateway' drugs.
Low
More
Cigarettes
Directions
33. Because of cross tolerance - methadone is effective at reducing the severity and delaying symptoms associated with heroin withdrawal. Methadone is a __________ opioid.
Pharmacy
Lipid soluble
Synthetic
Alcoholics Anonymous
34. Drugs used to relieve _______ are called anxiolytics.
Erich Goode
Dreams
Anxiety
Phenothiazines
35. The parasympathetic branch of the autonomic system stimulates digestion - slows the heart - and has other effects associated with a _______ physiological state.
1937
Soft drinks
Relaxed
20
36. Age ___ and older showed sharp drop in use.
Anesthetic
26
Phenothiazines
Hallucinogens
37. Antipsychotic drugs are grouped into two categories--conventional antipsychotics and ________ antipsychotics.
Sedative
Physical
Crystal meth
Atypical
38. When cocaine use is suddenly stopped - a 'crash' follows almost instantaneously that is characterized by an intense ________ for more cocaine.
Serotonin
6 -000
Craving
Pleasurable
39. Cardiac arrhythmia is a condition that occurs during ________ ________ ________ syndrome (SSDS)
Parkinson's
Heroin
Sudden sniffing death
Pharmacy
40. GABA is a very widespread inhibitory neurotransmitter and ________ tends to have widespread inhibitory effects on neurons in the brain.
Natural
Inhalant
Distillation
Alcohol
41. Alcohol dependence as a disease is also known as disease model of alcohol dependence and this concept did not become really popular until ______________________ began to have a major influence in the 1940s and 1950s
DMT
Neurotransmitters
Alcoholics Anonymous
Mucous
42. Nitrous oxide is used by _________ for light anesthesia and can be found as a propellant in whipped cream dispensers.
Tax
Dentists
Surroundings
Absorbed
43. The most widely used licit social drug is _______.
Placenta
Mental
Alcohol
Antihistamines
44. Its believed that antipsychotic drugs work by blocking D2 ________ receptors.
Dopamine
Caffeine
III
Amino acids
45. LSD - PCP and mescaline are _____________.
Hallucinogens
Cancer
Marijuana
Prozac
46. Pharmacodynamic tolerance occurs when the brain attempts to maintain _____________ by altering the nervous system's sensitivity.
Opioids
Homeostasis
Breathing
Potent
47. In the US - _______ was first used in psychiatry and as a local anesthetic.
Cocaine
Depressants
Poppers
Perceived risk
48. ________ is used primarily in conjunction with surgical anesthesia and is approximately a hundred times as potent as morphine.
Somatic
Natural
Fentanyl
Weight
49. Psilocybin is the active psychoactive ingredient in _______________.
Decrease
Magic mushrooms
Consequences
Mucous membranes
50. Clonidine can be administered by a _____________ ______ - which gradually releases the drug over a seven day period.
Transdermal patch
Sinsemilla
25
Methamphetamine