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DSST Substance Abuse

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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.






2. Drugs designed to treat _________ _________. are being used as effective mood stabilizers.






3. Benzodiazepines are classified by their ________ of action.






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






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






6. licit drug use - alcohol - tobacco - caffeine






7. The DSM-IV-TR is a manual which provides criteria for classifying mental disorders into hundreds of specific __________ categories.






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.






9. Drugs are more likely to produce psychological dependence if they have a _____ onset.






10. Prior to 1965 - the most common medical use of amphetamines was for the treatment of _______.






11. The use of alcohol has decreased since ____ and its consumption varies greatly in different regions of the US and among different cultural groups.






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






13. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a condition affecting children born to alcoholic mothers - characterized by facial deformities - growth deficiency - and ____________________.






14. ___ involves using electric shock to induce convulsions in mental patients.






15. Molecules that assist in either the metabolism (breaking down) or synthesis (creation) of another molecule are called _______.






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






17. Cocaine is used for _________ ___________ and vasoconstriction for surgery of the mouth - nose - and throat.






18. According to a recent study - men and women from ______ backgrounds are more likely to smoke and less likely to quit the habit.






19. Over the counter drugs are often simply referred to as ____ drugs.






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






21. A BAC of 0.05 results in lowered alertness and a BAC of ____ results in death (lethal dose).






22. ________ brought tobacco to Europe after his voyage to the Americas.






23. ________ can be found in many over-the-counter drugs.






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






25. Respiratory depression is the most common type of drug _________ death--people simply stop breathing.






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






27. Opioids such as morphine and _______ are the drugs most often used for acute pain - such as short-term pain after surgery.






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






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






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






31. A person who has narcolepsy falls ______ as often as 50 times a day.






32. _______ professionals and their staff are the most likely to abuse nitrous oxide.






33. Most psychoactive drugs are taken by one of three basic routes: by mouth - _________ - or inhalation.






34. Precursors are the raw materials from which _________________ are made and are found circulating in the blood supply and generally in the brain.






35. Examples of ilicit drugs - include alcohol - tea - coffee - _______ and over the counter (OTC) drugs.






36. Ketamine is sometimes known as '_________' - has effects similar to PCP and is commonly used in veterinary hospitals as an anesthetic.






37. Smokers die _____ years earlier than nonsmokers.






38. Methamphetamine is also known as '______'.






39. Psychotic behavior when there is no known ________ cause refers to functional disorders.






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.






41. The neurotransmitter ____ is found in most areas of the CNS and exerts generalized inhibitory functions.






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






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.






44. Opiates are drugs that contain _____ or one of its derivatives.






45. _____ _______ studied cocaine for its potential as a treatment for a variety of ailments including depression and morphine dependence.






46. The predominant style of tobacco use went from pipes to snuff to _______ to cigars to cigarettes.






47. ________ is used primarily in conjunction with surgical anesthesia and is approximately a hundred times as potent as morphine.






48. ____ - also known as Ecstasy - produces both stimulant and hallucinogenic effects.






49. Diphenhydramine - hydroxyzine and promethazine are examples of OTC and prescription ______________ used as CNS depressants.






50. The parasympathetic branch of the autonomic system stimulates digestion - slows the heart - and has other effects associated with a _______ physiological state.