WGU - C458 - HEALTH, WELLNESS AND FITNESS UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

WGU - C458 - HEALTH, WELLNESS AND FITNESS
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS

Question:
1. Amphetamines
Answer:
Uppers, stimulants. Legitimate and useful medical applications, but often abused. Example Ritalin for
ADHD. Adderall for obesity, ADHD and narcolepsy.

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2. Ecstasy
Answer:
MDMA. Club drug often used at all night dance parties (raves). Stimulant that increases heart rate and
blood pressure and can lead to heart or kidney failure; regular use produces long-lasting, perhaps
permanent, damage to your brains ability to think and store memories.

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3. Hallucinogens
Answer:
Substances that occur naturally or produce synthetically that distort user's perception of reality; cause
sensory illusions that make it difficult to distinguish fact from fantasy. Example: LSD, peyote, PCP.

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4. Barbiturates
Answer:
Historically represented one of nations biggest drug abuse problems. Generally known as downers, often
taken as a way of escaping problems of daily living. Effects range from person feeling drowsy,
uninhibited, and intoxicated to intoxication and staggering as if drunk, slurred speech, confused.

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5. Nicotine
Answer:
Found in tobacco. Potent parasympathetic alkaloid, stimulant drug, addictive. Associated with
cardiovascular disease, potential birth defects, and poisoning. Associated with cancer.

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6. Suppositories
Answer:
Drug delivery system inserted into rectum, vagina, or urethra where it dissolves or melts and is absorbed
into the bloodstream.

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7. Diuretics

,Answer:
Promotes production of urine. Used for high blood pressure. Often used by bulimics for weight loss.

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8. Intravenous injection
Answer:
A route of drug administration directly into the bloodstream through a vein. Yield sstrongest and most
rapid effact but is most dangerous due to risk of infection, vein collapse, or overdose.

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9. Intramuscular injection
Answer:
A route of drug administration; injected into the muscle.

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10. Drug abuse
Answer:
Generally refers to chronic, excessive use of a drug. May also refer to a person's intent.

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11. Drug inhibition (receptor site)
Answer:

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12. THC
Answer:
Active ingredient in marijuana. Connects to nerve cell sites and brain called cannabinoid receptors and
influences the activity of those cells. Influences pleasure, memory, thought, concentration, sensory and
time perception, and coordinated movement. Increases risk of heart attack. Increases risk of cancer. Can
lead to depression anxiety and personality disturbances. Causes birth defects. Can be used for medical
purposes: glaucoma, Chemotherapy cause to nausea and vomiting, appetite stimulant, antiasthmatic,
seizures, muscle relaxant action.

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13. Receptor sites (of a drug)
Answer:
Target cells for drugs.

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14. OTC drugs
Answer:
Over-the-counter drugs; such as, cough medicine, pain medication, allergy medication that don't require
prescriptions.

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15. Tolerance

, Answer:
Some drugs are used frequently, large doses are required to maintain the same effect

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16. Anabolic steroids
Answer:
Synthetic variant of the male sex hormone testosterone

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17. Opioids
Answer:
Substances that act on the nervous system, medications that are artificially made, reduce the intensity of
pain signals reaching the brain and affect those brain areas controlling emotion which diminishes the
effects of a painful stimulus; Morphine, tramadol, oxycodone, methadone

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18. Endorphins
Answer:
Endogenous opioid neuropeptides. Produced by central nervous system and pituitary gland. Released
during exercise, interact with the receptors in your brain to reduce perception of pain, trigger positive body
feeling, similar to morphine

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19. GRASE list (FDA)
Answer:
Generally recognized as safe by the FDA for use in food and drugs

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20. Epinephrine
Answer:
Sometimes called adrenaline; secreted by the adrenal medulla; stimulation of the meulla by the
sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system causes release of hormones, especially epinephrine,
into the blood to initiate short-term fight or flight response to stress

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21. Synergism
Answer:
Combined action of drugs is greater than the sum of the effects of anyone drug taking a loan. For example,
some drugs potentiate or increase the effects of another drug.

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22. Prostaglandin inhibitors
Answer:
NSAIDs. Medications that act on prostaglandins, compounds that regulate muscle contractions.

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23. Benzodiazepines