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DSST Substance Abuse
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1. ________ is used primarily in conjunction with surgical anesthesia and is approximately a hundred times as potent as morphine.
Dropouts
Cardiovascular
Fentanyl
High
2. GHB is a clear - colorless - odorless liquid associated with _____ ____.
Illegal Instrumental Use
Date rape
Ethanol
Nicotine
3. In the US - _______ was first used in psychiatry and as a local anesthetic.
Cocaine
Atypical
Slowly
Unknown
4. Most illicit drugs cause an addiction in both the mother and the infant because drugs (cocaine - barbiturates - heroin - etc) pass through the _________ and reach the baby.
Placenta
Temperance
Autonomic
PCP
5. Naloxone or __________ is used to reverse the depressed respiration resulting from an opioid overdose.
Epileptic seizures
Watery
Blindness
Nalorphine
6. Drug misuse is the inappropriate use of OTC or ____________ medications.
Memory
Evaporate
Healthcare
Prescription
7. A recent study indicated that persons aged 26 to __ were most likely to have used marijuana sometime during their life.
Potency
34
Instrumental
13-14
8. Two brain imaging techniques are ___ and MRI.
Tobacco
48
PET
Psychological
9. Inhalant abuse can cause _______ - a state of oxygen deficiency in the body.
Asleep
Hypoxia
20
Benzodiazepines
10. Small doses of ______________ help narcoleptics stay alert.
Myopia
Antidepressant
Amphetamines
Naltrexone
11. Ice is also known as '______________'.
Crystal meth
Opposed
Amphetamines
Blindness
12. The most common active ingredients contained in OTC sleep aids are ______________.
Mesolimbic
Depressant
Prescription
Antihistamines
13. ____ - also known as Ecstasy - produces both stimulant and hallucinogenic effects.
Heroin
MDMA
Memory
Decreased
14. The white powder that you generally associate with cocaine is the _____ form of cocaine known as cocaine hydrochloride.
Cessation
100
Salt
Craving
15. The opium plant contains both morphine and _______.
Amphetamines
HCL
Phenothiazines
Codeine
16. National Prohibition of alcohol was successful in _________ alcohol consumption and alcoholrelated problems - but also led to a loss of alcohol taxes and increased law breaking.
Reducing
Delirium tremens
Less
Fetal Alcohol
17. Because inhalants are so readily _________ - they present a special problem for prevention.
Hallucinogens
HCL
Available
Disease
18. LSD is one of the most potent ____________ drugs.
Drinking
Psychoactive
Abuse
Pharmacodynamic
19. ____-acting barbiturates or benzodiazepines are commonly prescribed to prevent Alcohol withdrawal symptoms.
Long
Large
Equilibrium
Naloxone
20. King ______ of England wrote a antitobacco pamphlet and he taxed tobacco to attempt to limit its use.
Physical
Obesity
Date rape
James
21. 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.
Body
Crystal meth
Methamphetamine
Felt tip
22. Cocaine is a ___________ controlled substance.
Al
Schedule II
Opium
Muscle spasms
23. Cocaine ___ (Hydrochloride) is water soluble and can easily be injected intravenously.
HCL
Glucosamine
Mental
Weeks
24. The Native American Church's use of ______ has been controversial throughout the twentieth century.
Loco weed
Peyote
Nalorphine
Fentanyl
25. Studies have shown that it typically takes at least 2 or 3 ______ for a heroin user to become addicted.
Rate
Caffeine
Artificial
Months
26. In a double blind procedure - neither the patient nor the doctor know whether the subject is receiving a _______ or an experimental drug.
Psilocybin
Placebo
Felt tip
Designer
27. Severe alcoholism often results in ____________ as a result of decreased caloric intake by alcoholics.
Inhalant
Chlorpromazine
Reducing
Malnutrition
28. Methods of drug testing include urine - ____ - and saliva.
Antihistamines
Inhalant
Parkinson's
Hair
29. The idea that alcohol dependence is a _______ goes back at least to the 1700s.
Nicotine
Methamphetamine
Disease
Depressants
30. ________ drugs are developed to eliminate the illegality of a drug by modifying a drug into a new compound.
Instrumental
Depressants
Insomnia
Designer
31. American _______ / Alaska Natives are the racial ethnic group that report the highest illicit drug use for the past month.
Low
Indians
Peyote cactus
Schedule I
32. It is possible to estimate an individual's blood alcohol content (BAC) by knowing their ______ - gender - and amount of alcohol consumed.
Narcotics
Thousands
Weight
Overdose
33. Heart rate and blood pressure are two of the many functions regulated by the _________ nervous system.
Autonomic
Wood
Antihistamines
Potency
34. licit drug use - alcohol - tobacco - caffeine
High
Detoxification
Legal Recreational Use
Erich Goode
35. Gender affects BAC because the average female has a higher proportion of _________ and therefore - for a given weight has less volume in which to distribute the alcohol.
Tremors
Body fat
Peyote cactus
Mushrooms
36. Onset of drug effects via inhalation is quite rapid because the capillary walls are very accessible in the _____ - and the drug thus enters the blood quickly.
Sleeping pills
I
Recreational
Lungs
37. Adopted sons whose __________ fathers were alcohol dependent have a much greater than average chance of becoming alcohol dependent than adopted sons of non-alcoholic fathers.
Alcohol
Congestion rebound
Cigarettes
Biological
38. Amphetamines can be taken orally - intravenously or by _______.
Illicit
Irritability
Smoking
Enzymes
39. 'Opioid' is another word for '_____'.
200
16
Opiate
Inexpensive
40. Psychological dependence develops most rapidly when the drug hits the ______ quickly.
1933
Brain
Toxic
Parkinson's
41. The antidepressant drug __________ was originally used to treat tuberculosis.
Iproniazid
Mesolimbic
Biological
Is Not
42. Drug use can be detected in urine for up to 5 days - in saliva for up to 1 day and in hair samples for up to ___ days.
THC
48
90
Sedatives
43. The predominant style of tobacco use went from pipes to snuff to _______ to cigars to cigarettes.
Transdermal patch
Weight
Receptors
Chewing
44. Floaters (chippers) usually don't maintain their own supply of drugs but prefer to use...
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45. Precursors are the raw materials from which _________________ are made and are found circulating in the blood supply and generally in the brain.
OTC
Tax
Neurotransmitters
Glaucoma
46. Federal laws which prohibited the sale of alcohol from 1920 to ____ are called prohibition.
Psychoactive
1933
Time course
Addictive
47. A single shot of heroin lasts ___ hours.
LSD
Breaks down
Antidepressant
4-6
48. The four stages of alcohol withdrawal are _______ - hallucinations - delusions and seizures.
Tremors
Glucosamine
Sleeping pills
Sedatives
49. The caffeine that is taken out of coffee to make it decaffeinated is used mostly in _____ ______.
Synthetic
Mucous
Soft drinks
Dopamine
50. The _____ ____ of heroin is 15-30 minutes.
Neurotransmitters
Antipsychotics
Half life
Nicotine