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DSST Substance Abuse

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1. 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.






2. A person under the influence of CNS depressants will appear drunk. Intoxicating effects include drowsiness - slurred speech - and ___________.






3. _________ drugs produce wakefulness and a sense of energy and well-being.






4. Half life refers to how long a drug is ______ in the body.






5. The BBB is very tight and excludes the brain uptake of all ______ molecule drugs and greater than 98% of small molecule drugs.






6. Other alcohols and oils contained in alcoholic beverages are called _________.






7. The process where the body rids itself of drugs and alcohol is called ______________.






8. The psychological effects of LSD - mescaline - and psilocybin can be blocked with ________.






9. The dried crushed leaves - flowers - stems and seeds of the cannabis sativa plant is called _______.






10. Medical science has used opium as a pain reliever and also to treat _________ and dehydration caused by dysentery.






11. Physiological effects of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) include ________ in body temperature - heart rate and blood pressure - sweating and dilation of eye pupils.






12. Cirrhosis is a _____ disease which results from alcohol abuse and is the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S..






13. CYP450 enzymes ______ toxic chemicals once they are eaten.






14. Synthetic drugs which result from the altered chemical structures of illicit drugs are called __________________.






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






16. Tobacco is responsible for ___ thousand US deaths each year.






17. The basic __________ skeleton of an illicit drug is modified to form a new compound. PCP and Ecstasy are probably the most well known examples of synthetic drugs.






18. Nitrites are sometimes called '________' and come in small vials or tubes.






19. The idea that alcohol dependence is a _______ goes back at least to the 1700s.






20. The timing of the onset - duration - and termination of a drug's effect is called the ___________.






21. The __________ of alcohol by the liver occurs at a constant rate that is not much influenced by body size.






22. In the 2003 National Survey on Drug Use - only 1.6 percent of U.S. adults reported ever having used Heroin in their lifetimes - with 0.1 percent reporting use in the past ____.






23. higher tolerance to heroin also results in higher tolerance to morphine and ________.






24. The legal opioid methadone - is used to treat heroin dependence by reducing severity of __________ symptoms.






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






26. Introduced as a ____ law - the Harrison Narcotic Act (1914) was not meant to be punitive and it made no reference to users of narcotics.






27. Methods of drug testing include urine - ____ - and saliva.






28. Varenicline (_______) is a prescription drug used for smoking cessation.






29. Psilocybin is the active psychoactive ingredient in _______________.






30. A common lung disease caused by smoking is _________.






31. Generally _________ refers to the psychological attachment to a drug.






32. Schedule I drugs have a high potential for abuse - no current ________ use in the US and have been declared unsafe.






33. Bupropion is an ________________ used to reduce nicotine withdrawal symptoms.






34. ___ is normally ineffective when taken orally and is usually snorted - smoked - or taken by injection.






35. 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.






36. Drug misuse is the inappropriate use of OTC or ____________ medications.






37. Even the newest ______________ drugs are only a little better than placebo.






38. The fourth stage of drug addiction is __________.






39. 95% pure alcohol is called _____________ spirits






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






41. Another word for ____________ is psychedelic.






42. Amphetamine abusers often use ___________ - such as barbiturates to counteract the hyperactive feelings associated with high doses of amphetamines.






43. Most heroin users need 3 or 4 injections a ___ to avoid withdrawal.






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






45. Acne and baldness in men - decreased breast size and facial hair in women are some of the side effects associated with ________________ use.






46. 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.






47. The most common age group to report the most illicit drug use is 18 to __.






48. Cocaine ___ (Hydrochloride) is water soluble and can easily be injected intravenously.






49. A situation where repeated administration of the same dose of a drug results in gradually ___________ effects is called tolerance.






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







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