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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.






2. GHB is a clear - colorless - odorless liquid associated with _____ ____.






3. In the US - _______ was first used in psychiatry and as a local anesthetic.






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.






5. Naloxone or __________ is used to reverse the depressed respiration resulting from an opioid overdose.






6. Drug misuse is the inappropriate use of OTC or ____________ medications.






7. A recent study indicated that persons aged 26 to __ were most likely to have used marijuana sometime during their life.






8. Two brain imaging techniques are ___ and MRI.






9. Inhalant abuse can cause _______ - a state of oxygen deficiency in the body.






10. Small doses of ______________ help narcoleptics stay alert.






11. Ice is also known as '______________'.






12. The most common active ingredients contained in OTC sleep aids are ______________.






13. ____ - also known as Ecstasy - produces both stimulant and hallucinogenic effects.






14. The white powder that you generally associate with cocaine is the _____ form of cocaine known as cocaine hydrochloride.






15. The opium plant contains both morphine and _______.






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.






17. Because inhalants are so readily _________ - they present a special problem for prevention.






18. LSD is one of the most potent ____________ drugs.






19. ____-acting barbiturates or benzodiazepines are commonly prescribed to prevent Alcohol withdrawal symptoms.






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






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.






22. Cocaine is a ___________ controlled substance.






23. Cocaine ___ (Hydrochloride) is water soluble and can easily be injected intravenously.






24. The Native American Church's use of ______ has been controversial throughout the twentieth century.






25. Studies have shown that it typically takes at least 2 or 3 ______ for a heroin user to become addicted.






26. In a double blind procedure - neither the patient nor the doctor know whether the subject is receiving a _______ or an experimental drug.






27. Severe alcoholism often results in ____________ as a result of decreased caloric intake by alcoholics.






28. Methods of drug testing include urine - ____ - and saliva.






29. The idea that alcohol dependence is a _______ goes back at least to the 1700s.






30. ________ drugs are developed to eliminate the illegality of a drug by modifying a drug into a new compound.






31. American _______ / Alaska Natives are the racial ethnic group that report the highest illicit drug use for the past month.






32. It is possible to estimate an individual's blood alcohol content (BAC) by knowing their ______ - gender - and amount of alcohol consumed.






33. Heart rate and blood pressure are two of the many functions regulated by the _________ nervous system.






34. licit drug use - alcohol - tobacco - caffeine






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.






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.






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.






38. Amphetamines can be taken orally - intravenously or by _______.






39. 'Opioid' is another word for '_____'.






40. Psychological dependence develops most rapidly when the drug hits the ______ quickly.






41. The antidepressant drug __________ was originally used to treat tuberculosis.






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.






43. The predominant style of tobacco use went from pipes to snuff to _______ to cigars to cigarettes.






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.






46. Federal laws which prohibited the sale of alcohol from 1920 to ____ are called prohibition.






47. A single shot of heroin lasts ___ hours.






48. The four stages of alcohol withdrawal are _______ - hallucinations - delusions and seizures.






49. The caffeine that is taken out of coffee to make it decaffeinated is used mostly in _____ ______.






50. The _____ ____ of heroin is 15-30 minutes.