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DSST Substance Abuse
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. _______ is absorbed most quickly through smoking and intravenous injection.
GABA
Cocaine
20
Sudden sniffing death
2. Employee Assitance Programs or EAPs can also be known as _____ of Assistance programs.
Active
Cost
Withdrawal
Ethanol
3. The active ingredient found in OTC stimulants is ________.
Caffeine
Synthetic
Psychoactive
Weeks
4. ________ symptoms of schizophrenia include hallucinations - delusions - disorganized speech and behavior.
41
Mucous membranes
Positive
Entactogens
5. The human body strives to maintain its internal environment within a certain range (temperature - blood pressure - etc); this ___________ is called homeostasis.
Inflammatory
Preschool
440
Equilibrium
6. Kava Kava and St John's Wort are both medicinal herbs - often used to treat mild
Blood-brain
Replacing
Potent
Depression
7. Smokers die _____ years earlier than nonsmokers.
13-14
Potency
Glaucoma
Licit
8. Only lipid-soluble substances can pass the _____________ barrier.
Heroin
HCL
Heart Disease
Blood-brain
9. Timothy Leary was a well known psychologist and proponent for the use of ___ in the 1960s.
Loco weed
Year
Alcohol
LSD
10. The effective dose (ED50) for LSD is many __________ of times smaller than that of other psychoactive drugs.
Theobromine
Placenta
Drinking
Thousands
11. Respiratory depression is the most common type of drug _________ death--people simply stop breathing.
10
Overdose
Hepatitis
Barley
12. ________ - tobacco and marijuana are commonly called gateway drugs.
Large
Alcohol
Depression
Body
13. In the late 1800s the typical ______ user was a middle aged white woman who functioned well and was adjusted to her life as a wife and mother.
Switching
100
Opioid
Safely
14. The most _________ form of alcohol withdrawal is called delirium tremens and occurs in about 5 percent of people who have withdrawal symptoms.
Heroin
Injection
Dangerous
Social
15. A BAC of 0.05 results in lowered alertness and a BAC of ____ results in death (lethal dose).
Spinal cord
0.4
200
90
16. The timing of the onset - duration - and termination of a drug's effect is called the ___________.
Heart beat
Time course
Constant
Patent medicines
17. _______ is drinkable - is the psychoactive ingredient in alcoholic beverages - and is also known as grain alcohol.
Artificial
Obesity
Disease
Ethanol
18. 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.
Body fat
Football
Hallucinogen
Cocaine
19. Methods of drug testing include urine - ____ - and saliva.
10
Preoccupation
Caffenism
Hair
20. Synthetic drugs which result from the altered chemical structures of illicit drugs are called __________________.
Structural analogs
Norepinephrine
Antihistamines
Prescription
21. CYP450 enzymes ______ toxic chemicals once they are eaten.
Eliminate
Dose response
Psilocybin
Blood pressure
22. The concentration of _______ found in the blood is called the BAC.
Brain
Decreased
Phenothiazines
Alcohol
23. 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.
One-third
Surroundings
Illicit
Family
24. The __________ of alcohol by the liver occurs at a constant rate that is not much influenced by body size.
Metabolism
Transmitter
Heroin
Substitution
25. Many ________ remedies have been used for anxiety disorder and depression. These include Kava Kava (also known as Kava Root) and St John's Wort.
Eliminate
Natural
Prescription
Liver
26. Cocaine is derived from the ____ plant.
20
Homeostasis
Coca
Clove
27. Transdermal literally means 'through the _____'.
Psychoactive
Sigmund Freud
Skin
Fermentation
28. ______ causing chemicals contained in tobacco are called nitrosamines.
Peyote cactus
Schedule III
Cancer
Hallucinogens
29. A common lung disease caused by smoking is _________.
95
Addiction
Emphysema
Stimulant
30. According to a 1997 report - alcohol is involved in more than ___ thousand deaths in the US each year.
Cancer
100
PCP
Homeostasis
31. The DSM-IV-TR is a manual which provides criteria for classifying mental disorders into hundreds of specific __________ categories.
Diagnostic
LSD
Structural analogs
Psychotherapeutic
32. Because their effect varies depending on the dose - CNS depressants are said to be _____ ________.
Memory
Dose dependent
Heroin
Heroin
33. Examples of damage to the cardiovascular system caused by medical doses of amphetamines include increased heart rate - raised _______ _________ - and damage to veins and arteries.
Memory
95
Xanthines
Blood pressure
34. Drugs which enhance the sense of touch are called ___________.
Entactogens
Peyote
MDMA
Codeine
35. Drug ____________ occur when a drug enhances or inhibits the effect of another drug.
Interactions
Injection
Analgesic
Stimulant
36. The introduction of antipsychotic drugs have caused a dramatic ________ in the population of mental hospitals.
Decrease
Gateway
Cocaine
Slowly
37. Smoking is involved in about ___ percent of deaths from cardiovascular disease.
30
Psychological
Entactogens
Narcotics
38. _________ is a neurotransmitter associated with aggression and regulation of body weight.
Serotonin
Indians
Prescription
34
39. Opiates are drugs that contain _____ or one of its derivatives.
Theobromine
Alcohol
Depress
Opium
40. ________ is a drug used for treating alcoholics. It makes them extremely sick if they drink even a small amount of alcohol.
Antabuse
Slowly
Antihistamines
Social
41. Even the newest ______________ drugs are only a little better than placebo.
Laughing gas
Solvents
Opposed
Antidepressant
42. A single shot of heroin lasts ___ hours.
Physical
4-6
Short term
Graduates
43. Hashish is the most ______ cannabis preparation - it's THC level can be as high as 28%.
Potent
Prescription
Amphetamines
Brain
44. The names of barbiturates all end in __.
Al
Temperance
Indians
Gateway
45. Approximately __% of people who use marijuana become addicted to it.
10
Felt tip
Cocaine
Explosive
46. Cross tolerance exists between LSD - mescaline and __________.
Toxic
Psilocybin
Phyiscal
Dopamine
47. Pharmacological factors refer to how the drug actually affects the ____.
Illegal Recreational Use
Body
Drinking
Hydrochloride
48. The active ingredients for half of the prescriptions filled consist of only ____ drugs.
Relaxed
200
One half
Raves
49. Marinol is used to relieve nausea/vomiting experienced by _______ patients and to help restore appetite to AIDS patients.
20
440
Neurotransmitters
Cancer
50. When using snuff or chewing tobacco - nicotine is absorbed through the ______ lining of the mouth.
ECT - Electroconvulsive therapy
Incurable
Perceived risk
Mucous