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DSST Substance Abuse
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Contextual factors refer to how physical ______________ affect drug use; i.e. being at home vs. being in a rock concert or in a dance club.
Inhalant
Addiction
Surroundings
Generic
2. Drugs designed to treat _________ _________. are being used as effective mood stabilizers.
Rohypnol
Epileptic seizures
Cocaine
Benzodiazepines
3. Benzodiazepines are classified by their ________ of action.
Grain neutral
Duration
Breaks down
Dangerous
4. The __________ of alcohol by the liver occurs at a constant rate that is not much influenced by body size.
Caffeine
Metabolism
Cost
Heart beat
5. Tobacco is responsible for ___ thousand US deaths each year.
440
Tobacco
1933
Relaxed
6. licit drug use - alcohol - tobacco - caffeine
Drug
Time course
Cigarettes
Legal Recreational Use
7. The DSM-IV-TR is a manual which provides criteria for classifying mental disorders into hundreds of specific __________ categories.
MDMA
Antidepressant
Diagnostic
Peyote cactus
8. The second stage of drug addiction is increased use - in which the user starts to take increased amounts of the drug. This is followed by _____________ - the third stage of drug addiction.
Preoccupation
Steroids
British East India
Enzymes
9. Drugs are more likely to produce psychological dependence if they have a _____ onset.
Relaxed
One hour
Body fat
Rapid
10. Prior to 1965 - the most common medical use of amphetamines was for the treatment of _______.
Cessation
Dopamine
Obesity
Prescription
11. The use of alcohol has decreased since ____ and its consumption varies greatly in different regions of the US and among different cultural groups.
Andes
1980
LSD
Cocaine
12. Almost ___ % of 8th graders have abused an inhalant sometime in their life.
Schedule I
Psychological
20
Nicotine
13. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a condition affecting children born to alcoholic mothers - characterized by facial deformities - growth deficiency - and ____________________.
Environment
Mental retardation
Transmitter
Hallucinogens
14. ___ involves using electric shock to induce convulsions in mental patients.
Pharmacodynamic
PET
Soft drinks
ECT - Electroconvulsive therapy
15. Molecules that assist in either the metabolism (breaking down) or synthesis (creation) of another molecule are called _______.
Gateway
Mesolimbic
Depressants
Enzymes
16. Synthetic drugs which result from the altered chemical structures of illicit drugs are called __________________.
Haldol
Hydrochloride
Structural analogs
OTC
17. Cocaine is used for _________ ___________ and vasoconstriction for surgery of the mouth - nose - and throat.
Mucous
Topical anesthesia
Sedative hypnotic
Epileptic seizures
18. According to a recent study - men and women from ______ backgrounds are more likely to smoke and less likely to quit the habit.
Hallucinogens
V
Poorer
DMT
19. Over the counter drugs are often simply referred to as ____ drugs.
120 pound woman
Erich Goode
Overdose
OTC
20. A situation where repeated administration of the same dose of a drug results in gradually ___________ effects is called tolerance.
Psychoactive
Constant
Diminishing
16
21. A BAC of 0.05 results in lowered alertness and a BAC of ____ results in death (lethal dose).
Nicotine
Natural
Evaporate
0.4
22. ________ brought tobacco to Europe after his voyage to the Americas.
Dropouts
Columbus
Magic mushrooms
Rohypnol
23. ________ can be found in many over-the-counter drugs.
Caffeine
Depressants
Glutamate
Phenothiazines
24. ________ - tobacco and marijuana are commonly called gateway drugs.
Epileptic seizures
Less
Healthcare
Alcohol
25. Respiratory depression is the most common type of drug _________ death--people simply stop breathing.
Alcohol
Schedule II
Overdose
Columbus
26. Methods of drug testing include urine - ____ - and saliva.
Brain tissue
Dreams
Detoxification
Hair
27. Opioids such as morphine and _______ are the drugs most often used for acute pain - such as short-term pain after surgery.
Months
Hypoventilation
Alcohol
Codeine
28. A person under the influence of CNS depressants will appear drunk. Intoxicating effects include drowsiness - slurred speech - and ___________.
Caffenism
ECT - Electroconvulsive therapy
Barley
Staggering
29. Acne and baldness in men - decreased breast size and facial hair in women are some of the side effects associated with ________________ use.
30
Narcotics
Atypical
Anabolic steroid
30. The shorter the drug half life - the more __________ it is.
Nicotine
Psychological
Addictive
Glutamate
31. A person who has narcolepsy falls ______ as often as 50 times a day.
Mucous
Asleep
Codeine
Sleeping pills
32. _______ professionals and their staff are the most likely to abuse nitrous oxide.
Medical
Leukoplakia
Weight control
Decrease
33. Most psychoactive drugs are taken by one of three basic routes: by mouth - _________ - or inhalation.
Coca
Emphysema
Theraputic
Injection
34. Precursors are the raw materials from which _________________ are made and are found circulating in the blood supply and generally in the brain.
Neurotransmitters
Toxic
Is Not
Dose response
35. Examples of ilicit drugs - include alcohol - tea - coffee - _______ and over the counter (OTC) drugs.
ECT - Electroconvulsive therapy
THC
Ethanol
Tobacco
36. Ketamine is sometimes known as '_________' - has effects similar to PCP and is commonly used in veterinary hospitals as an anesthetic.
Phenothiazines
Decrease
Unknown
Special K
37. Smokers die _____ years earlier than nonsmokers.
13-14
Sudden sniffing death
Positive
Increase
38. Methamphetamine is also known as '______'.
Available
Cannabis sativa
Barbiturate
Speed
39. Psychotic behavior when there is no known ________ cause refers to functional disorders.
Phyiscal
Blood pressure
Barley
Inflammatory
40. Originally it was believed that the occurrences of paranoid psychosis in cocaine and amphetamine users was caused by a pre-existing _______ condition or due to sleep deprivation.
Mental
Preoccupation
Toxic
Dopamine
41. The neurotransmitter ____ is found in most areas of the CNS and exerts generalized inhibitory functions.
GABA
Neonatal abstinence
Hallucinogens
Neurotransmitters
42. The legal opioid methadone - is used to treat heroin dependence by reducing severity of __________ symptoms.
Hepatitis
Involuntary
Withdrawal
Anorexiants
43. Most illicit _______________ consumed in the United States is produced in small laboratories which might exist for only a few days in a remote area before moving on.
Drug
Asleep
Withdrawal
Methamphetamine
44. Opiates are drugs that contain _____ or one of its derivatives.
Inherited
Opium
OTC
10
45. _____ _______ studied cocaine for its potential as a treatment for a variety of ailments including depression and morphine dependence.
Obesity
Antihistamines
Sigmund Freud
Toluene
46. The predominant style of tobacco use went from pipes to snuff to _______ to cigars to cigarettes.
Chewing
Neurotransmitters
PCP
Congeners
47. ________ is used primarily in conjunction with surgical anesthesia and is approximately a hundred times as potent as morphine.
Phyiscal
Physical
95
Fentanyl
48. ____ - also known as Ecstasy - produces both stimulant and hallucinogenic effects.
Constipation
MDMA
Over the counter
Mucous membranes
49. Diphenhydramine - hydroxyzine and promethazine are examples of OTC and prescription ______________ used as CNS depressants.
Delirium tremens
Antihistamines
Neurotransmitters
Hallucinogens
50. The parasympathetic branch of the autonomic system stimulates digestion - slows the heart - and has other effects associated with a _______ physiological state.
Glaucoma
Relaxed
Cocaine
Alcohol