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DSST Substance Abuse
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Depressants _________ the rate of various vital physiological activities - especially those of the central nervous system.
Decrease
Medicinal herbs
Prescription
Prescription
2. The most common active ingredients contained in OTC sleep aids are ______________.
Sinsemilla
Antihistamines
Indians
Patent medicines
3. ___________ and Chondroitin are both herbal dietary supplements that contribute to joint strength and are used to used to relieve the discomfort of arthritis.
Anesthetics
Psychedelics
Glucosamine
Alcoholic
4. A _______ drug is capable of passing the blood-brain barrier and influencing the brain's activity.
Psychoactive
Sedative
THC
10
5. A key belief of Alcoholics Anonymous is that alcohol dependence is an _________ - progressive disease characterized by a loss of control over drinking.
Incurable
95
Haldol
Magic mushrooms
6. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a condition affecting children born to alcoholic mothers - characterized by facial deformities - growth deficiency - and ____________________.
Absorbed
Soft drinks
Mental retardation
Phenothiazines
7. Nicotine withdrawal symptoms include craving for tobacco - ____________ - restlessness - and anxiety.
Sedative
Detoxification
Muscle tone
Irritability
8. taking prescribed or over the counter (OTC) drugs for illness
Ethanol
Brain
Legal Instrumental Use
Medical
9. The human body strives to maintain its internal environment within a certain range (temperature - blood pressure - etc); this ___________ is called homeostasis.
Equilibrium
30
Grain neutral
1960
10. Occasionally drugs can have ___________ effects--an opposite effect to what is normally expected.
Paradoxica
Mushrooms
Inexpensive
Cross tolerant
11. There are now more than 40 million former smokers in the United States - and about 90 percent of them report that they quit smoking _______ formal treatment programs.
Without
Antidepressant
Theraputic
Drug
12. Approximately __% of people who use marijuana become addicted to it.
Central nervous system
Pinpoint
Motor
10
13. Marinol is a ____________ controlled substance.
10
OTC
LSD
Schedule III
14. The _________ policy of the FDA concerns taking some prescription medications and removing the prescription requirement and making the drug available via OTC.
Antagonists
Smoked
Switching
Weight
15. In a double blind procedure - neither the patient nor the doctor know whether the subject is receiving a _______ or an experimental drug.
Synthetic
Behavioral tolerance
Placebo
Other's drugs.
16. The first stage of drug addiction is ______.
Relief
San Salvador
Dreams
Insomnia
17. Another principal factor that affects drug use is __________.
Anorexiants
41
Contextual
Psychoactive
18. 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.
Transmitter
Illicit
Licit
Blood pressure
19. When nonsmokers inhale cigarette smoke from their ___________ it is called passive smoking.
Tissue
Environment
Is Not
Sedatives
20. Urine drug tests are relatively ___________ screening tests that detect a variety of abused substances or their metabolites in urine.
Antagonists
Thousands
Sinsemilla
Inexpensive
21. The three types are drug disposition tolerance - behavioral tolerance - and _________________ tolerance.
30
Pharmacodynamic
Cigarettes
10
22. The idea that alcohol dependence is a _______ goes back at least to the 1700s.
Dronabinol
Laughing gas
Disease
Mucous
23. Amnesiac and anesthesia effects are common among hypnotics when used in _____ doses.
High
Diagnostic
Employee Assitance Programs
Heroin
24. The freebase method of smoking cocaine can be very dangerous because the combination of fire and ether fumes is extremely __________.
British East India
Serotonin
Explosive
Mescaline
25. Physical dependence involves the need to continue using the drug to avoid __________ symptoms which include sickness and discomfort.
Withdrawal
Overdose
Pharmaceutical
Perceived risk
26. Many plant-produced chemicals have effects on the intestines or muscles; others alter ______ biochemistry.
Adolescents
Brain
Medical
Environment
27. Metabolites refer to the substances that are produced or left over when the body metabolizes (_______ ______) the drugs that have been consumed.
Breaks down
Cocaine
Diarrhea
Insomnia
28. Several studies have found a lower incidence of _____________ in moderate drinkers than in abstainers
Depressants
Steroids
Pharmacodynamic
Heart attacks
29. Since 1956 - the leaf tobacco content in cigarettes has been reduced by approximately __ percent.
Mucous membranes
San Salvador
Schedule I
25
30. Jimsonweed a potent hallucinogenic plant and is also known as ____ _____.
Loco weed
Antidepressant
Ounces
Family
31. Psilocybin is the active psychoactive ingredient in _______________.
Muscle tone
Central nervous system
Magic mushrooms
Malnutrition
32. Timothy Leary was a well known psychologist and proponent for the use of ___ in the 1960s.
Schedule II
Perceived risk
Ethanol
LSD
33. ___________________ are not regulated as OTC drugs. They don't have to be shown to be effective - and the amount of supposed active ingredient varies extensively.
Glaucoma
Dietary supplements
Pleasure
Antihistamines
34. Methamphetamine is also known as '______'.
Soft drinks
Sigmund Freud
Speed
Mental
35. 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.
Heroin
Black Tar
Involuntary
Psychoactive
36. The psychological effects of LSD - mescaline - and psilocybin can be blocked with ________.
Cannabinoids
Patches
Molecular
Chlorpromazine
37. Clonidine is an opioide agonist drug (similar to methadone) used in heroin ______________.
Appetite
Detoxification
Contextual
Sleeping pills
38. Schedule IV drugs have a slightly higher chance of abuse than the Schedule V drugs. What most specifically distinguishes Schedule V drugs from the other schedules is that the drugs are regulated but don't require a ______________.
Prescription
Schedule II
Enzymes
Raves
39. ________ - tobacco and marijuana are commonly called gateway drugs.
Safely
Cross tolerant
Alcohol
Legal Recreational Use
40. ____________ is the process by which sugar is converted into alcohol through the biochemical action of yeast.
Bipolar disorder
Neurotransmitters
Fermentation
Healthcare
41. Two brain imaging techniques are ___ and MRI.
Malnutrition
PET
Dreams
Violent
42. Most studies show that alcohol is involved in about ____ _____ of all suicides.
Patches
SSRI - Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
Year
One-third
43. The forming of a neurotransmitter by the action of _______ on precursors is called synthesis.
Enzymes
Neurotransmitters
OTC
Amphetamines
44. In the relief stage - a user experiences satisfaction by _________ from negative feelings such as boredom - anger - stress - fatigue and loneliness.
Pleasurable
Hydrochloride
Escaping
Opium
45. These drugs alter perceptions of reality. They can affect sense of taste - smell - hearing and vision. Sometimes they are called ______________.
Molecular
Women
Psychedelics
Drinking
46. If all of the following consumed the same amount of alcohol at the same speed - which one would have the highest BAC? (120 pound woman - 135 pound woman - 150 pound man - 170 pound man).
Psychoactive
Analgesic
120 pound woman
Drug
47. Cannabis addiction is ______ harmful than addiction to tobacco - prescription drugs or alcohol.
Emphysema
Unknown
Structural analogs
Less
48. The most important drug-metabolizing enzymes found in the liver belong to a group known as the ______ family of enzymes.
CYP450
Pleasurable
Cocaine
1960
49. Most psychoactive drugs can be categorized as stimulants - depressants - opioids - hallucinogens - or _________________ agents.
10
Muscle spasms
Psychotherapeutic
Memory
50. _________________ are commonly prescribed for anxiety disorders.
Benzodiazepines
Drug safety
Short term
Household