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DSST Substance Abuse
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Homeostasis
Healthcare
Absorbed
OTC
2. 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.
Chantix
Mental
Prescription
Amino acids
3. There are currently no FDA approved OTC drugs for ______________.
Toxic
Weight control
Neonatal abstinence
Heart Disease
4. 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.
Psychoactive
Employee Assitance Programs
Smoking
Special K
5. The half life of _______ is 60 to 90 minutes.
Spinal cord
Cocaine
Floaters
Medicine
6. Alcohol is the drug most often associated with _______ crimes; in many cases - it is present in both the assailant and the victim.
MDMA
Violent
Equilibrium
Pharmaceutical
7. Psychological dependence develops most rapidly when the drug hits the ______ quickly.
Brain
Wood
Constipation
Football
8. At first - tobacco was almost universally accepted as a ________.
Fluoxetine
Gateway
Fetal Alcohol
Medicine
9. ______________ are significantly better than placebo treatments in reducing psychotic behaviors.
Football
Floaters
Phenothiazines
Opioids
10. The caffeine that is taken out of coffee to make it decaffeinated is used mostly in _____ ______.
Soft drinks
Haldol
10
Drug safety
11. ________ drugs are developed to eliminate the illegality of a drug by modifying a drug into a new compound.
Designer
Chewing
PET
Grain neutral
12. Drugs that block the action of morphine - heroin - or other opioids are called opioid ___________.
1960
Antagonists
30
Poorer
13. Some examples of stimulants include cocaine - ______________ - and caffeine.
Memory
Peyote cactus
Amphetamines
Opioids
14. MDMA - popularly known as ecstasy - is a drug popular at clubs and '_____' since the 1980s.
Raves
Alcoholic
Smaller
Peyote
15. The use of alcohol has decreased since ____ and its consumption varies greatly in different regions of the US and among different cultural groups.
Large
Neurotransmitters
Increase
1980
16. Synthetic drugs which result from the altered chemical structures of illicit drugs are called __________________.
Ounces
10
Structural analogs
Cessation
17. _________________ are commonly prescribed for anxiety disorders.
Muscle spasms
Blindness
Benzodiazepines
Dependence
18. Approximately _% of alcoholics - who experience alcohol withdrawal symptoms - must be treated in a hospital or in an alcohol rehabilitation facility that specializes in detoxification.
PCP
Decrease
Atypical
5
19. Drugs are said to be ______ ________ when tolerance to one reduces the effectiveness of each of the others.
Cross tolerant
I
Benzodiazepines
Healthcare
20. The most commonly abused types of drugs include _______ - tobacco - stimulants - hallucinogens and depressants.
Insomnia
48
Clozapine
Alcohol
21. Molecules that assist in either the metabolism (breaking down) or synthesis (creation) of another molecule are called _______.
Brain
Enzymes
Weeks
Mucous
22. Short acting drugs are used as __________ to treat insomnia and long acting drugs are used as sedatives to give prolonged relief from anxiety.
Medical
Benzodiazepines
Hypnotics
Sedative
23. Oral ingestion can be compared to intranasal administration (snorting) in that it is absorbed much more _______ than smoking or IV injection.
Slowly
III
Myopia
Atypical
24. The two major ________ pathways damaged in Parkinson's disease are acetylcholine and the nigrostriatal pathways.
LSD
Lipid soluble
Dopamine
PCP
25. Cannabis sativa originated in Asia but now grows worldwide. _____ ____ is made from the fibers of this plant.
Dangerous
Constant
Hemp rope
III
26. When nonsmokers inhale cigarette smoke from their ___________ it is called passive smoking.
Drug
Environment
PCP
15
27. The SSRI Fluoxetine is the most widely prescribed ______________ drug.
Day
Without
Laughing gas
Antidepressant
28. _______ professionals and their staff are the most likely to abuse nitrous oxide.
Depressants
Medical
Hair
Psychoactive
29. Most of the integration of information - learning and ______ occur in the central nervous system.
Prozac
Opioids
Narcotics
Memory
30. In 1970 - the FDA limited the legal use of ____________ to three medical conditions: narcolepsy - ADHD - and short term weight reduction programs.
Pleasure
Black Tar
Prozac
Amphetamines
31. 18.2% of unemployed persons report ________ drug use compared to only 7.9% of those with full time jobs and 10.7% of part time employees.
Heart beat
Illicit
Alcohol
Less
32. This type of alcohol can be added to gasoline to reduce pollution - used in cleaners and _________ - as well as in medical research.
Solvents
Tissue
Common
90
33. ______ causing chemicals contained in tobacco are called nitrosamines.
Available
Cancer
Plants
Constipation
34. Almost all alcoholics suffering from withdrawal symptoms (about __%) can be treated in outpatient programs.
Psychoactive
LSD
Freebase
95
35. ____________ drugs are drug compounds (substances) that affect the central nervous system and alter consciousness and/or perceptions.
Cocaine
Chlorpromazine
Unknown
Psychoactive
36. The white powder that you generally associate with cocaine is the _____ form of cocaine known as cocaine hydrochloride.
Salt
Plants
Caffenism
Illicit
37. The three components of the nervous system are the central nervous system - the _______ system - and the autonomic system.
Somatic
Date rape
Smaller
34
38. Drug assistance programs for drug-dependent employees are called _________.
Employee Assitance Programs
More
Healthcare
Thousands
39. Commonly called '_______ _____' - nitrous oxide is a gaseous anesthetic first used in the early 1800s in medicine and surgery.
Chlorpromazine
Laughing gas
Antidepressant
Inhalant
40. Smokers often report ________ _____ when they quit smoking.
Patent medicines
Lungs
Weight gain
Phenothiazines
41. taking prescribed or over the counter (OTC) drugs for illness
Legal Instrumental Use
Xanthines
Methamphetamine
Malnutrition
42. A _______ drug is capable of passing the blood-brain barrier and influencing the brain's activity.
Tardive dyskinesia
Is Not
Hypoventilation
Psychoactive
43. Ingesting too much caffeine can result in nervousness - irritability - _______________ and insomnia - etc.
Muscle spasms
Spinal cord
Insomnia
Tremors
44. Most heroin users need 3 or 4 injections a ___ to avoid withdrawal.
Taxes
48
Day
Narcotics
45. Cause of death with opioid overdose is usually suppressed __________.
Evaporate
Medical
High
Breathing
46. Amnesiac and anesthesia effects are common among hypnotics when used in _____ doses.
Amphetamines
High
Overdose
Parkinson's
47. The timing of the onset - duration - and termination of a drug's effect is called the ___________.
Toxic
Time course
HCL
Mucous
48. Tobacco is responsible for ___ thousand US deaths each year.
Rock
Opioid
Antidepressant
440
49. Volatile substances will __________ at low temperatures.
Hemp rope
Prescription
Evaporate
PCP
50. The active ingredient found in OTC stimulants is ________.
Endorphines
GABA
Caffeine
10