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DSST Substance Abuse

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Heart rate and blood pressure are two of the many functions regulated by the _________ nervous system.






2. Traffic fatalities involving alcohol have _________ since 1980.






3. The preoccupation phase is characterized by _________ concern about the drug.






4. Withdrawal symptoms may begin within hours or days after the smoker quits and may continue for several _______.






5. According to a 1997 report - alcohol is involved in more than ___ thousand deaths in the US each year.






6. There are several FDA approved prescription drugs used to treat ________ - but only Lunesta has been approved for long term use.






7. Whiskey - Scotch - and Brandy are examples of distilled beverages. They are also called '________'.






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






9. The remaining two principal factors affecting drug use are ______ and cultural.






10. The _____________ curve is a graph comparing the size of response to a drug to the amount of a drug taken.






11. The most widely used licit social drug is _______.






12. Two consequences of illicit drug use are lost productivity and increased ___________ costs.






13. The hallucinogenic effects of psilocybin are similar to those of LSD and __________.






14. ________ - benzodiazepines and opioid narcotics are also used for this purpose.






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






16. REM sleep is the sleep phase associated with _______.






17. Volatile substances will __________ at low temperatures.






18. When using snuff or chewing tobacco - nicotine is absorbed through the ______ lining of the mouth.






19. Ethylene glycol alcohol is poisonous and is a primary ingredient of __________.






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






21. Inhalant abuse is usually a problem among children and ___________.






22. The three types are drug disposition tolerance - behavioral tolerance - and _________________ tolerance.






23. When an alcoholic learns to modify his behavior to compensate for motor impairments associated with being intoxicated this is called _____ _____.






24. 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.






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






26. 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.






27. Advertising restrictions - smoke-free indoor air - _____ on tobacco products and limiting youth access to tobacco are all examples of tobacco control laws.






28. The concentration of _______ found in the blood is called the BAC.






29. Both tricyclics and MAO inhibitors interfere with the reuptake of the neurotransmitters ______________ - dopamine - and serotonin.






30. Cannabis addiction is ______ harmful than addiction to tobacco - prescription drugs or alcohol.






31. _____ drug use refers to using a drug with a specific functional purpose--not for recreation






32. Drugs with a high potential for abuse - with a currently accepted _______ use in the US - whose abuse may lead to severe physical or psychological dependence are listed under Schedule II.






33. This type of alcohol can be added to gasoline to reduce pollution - used in cleaners and _________ - as well as in medical research.






34. 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.






35. Withdrawal symptoms for marijuana include: irritability - restlessness - _________ appetite - weight loss and abnormal sleep.






36. Hormones and _________________ are two types of chemical signals important for maintaining homeostasis.






37. Natives of the ______ mountains in Bolivia and Peru today still use coca as their ancestors did thousands of years ago.






38. ______ causing chemicals contained in tobacco are called nitrosamines.






39. The somatic system carries sensory information into the CNS and carries ______ (movement) information back out.






40. King ______ of England wrote a antitobacco pamphlet and he taxed tobacco to attempt to limit its use.






41. Hashish comes from the concentrated ______.






42. CNS ___________ that cause drowsiness and promote sleep are called hypnotics.






43. The SSRI Fluoxetine is the most widely prescribed ______________ drug.






44. Most studies show that alcohol is involved in about ____ _____ of all suicides.






45. For many years - ___________ sleeping pills were the drug of choice for people wishing to commit suicide.






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






47. Because of cross tolerance - methadone is effective at reducing the severity and delaying symptoms associated with heroin withdrawal. Methadone is a __________ opioid.






48. Hashish is the most ______ cannabis preparation - it's THC level can be as high as 28%.






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






50. Transdermal literally means 'through the _____'.