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Practice Questions with A+ Answers | Final Exam
Guide FOR 2025/2026 (the most recent quizzes)
Withdrawal symptoms produced by abstaining from a drug are:
a.Often opposite to the effects of the drug itself
b.Seen only in narcotics
c.Extremely severe in all cases
d.What maintains a drug habit - A
Opiate-based drugs have been used to treat all of the following except:
a. Coughing
b. Diarrhea
c. Depression
d. Cancer pain - Depression
A key reason for heroin being so addictive is that it:
a.Can be consumed in many ways
b.Easily and rapidly enters the brain
c.Produces euphoria followed by a phase of intense alertness
d.Has very aversive withdrawal symptoms - b.Easily and rapidly enters the brain
The conditioned tolerance study in your text suggests that:
a.Cocaine is very similar to caffeine
b.Nicotine can be both a stimulant and a depressant
c.Heroin overdose may occur when the drug is administered in a novel environment
d.Tolerance to alcohol often produces tolerance to marijuana - c.Heroin overdose may
occur when the drug is administered in a novel environment
,Depressants have all of the following effects except:
a. Hypnotic effects
b. Analgesic effects
c. Anxiolytic effects
d. Sedative effects - b. Analgesic effects
During withdrawal from chronic alcohol administration, you are not likely to see:
a. Tremors
b. Sleep disturbances
c. Anxiolytic effects
d. Mood disturbances - c. Anxiolytic effects
Delirium tremens:
a. Is an abnormal form of alcohol withdrawal
b. Is characterized by hallucinations, delusions and confusion
c. Is a behavioral condition where individuals exhibit anxiety, uncontrollable sweats, and a bad
body odor
d. All of the above - b. Is characterized by hallucinations, delusions and confusion (
Alcohol exerts its major effects on the ___ receptor, a complex that has at least five kinds of
receptors.
a. Dopamine
b. Glutamate
c. GABAA
d. GABAB - c. GABAA (*)
The GABAA receptor complex:
a. Seems to be responsible for drug addiction
b. Can be activated by barbiturates and benzodiazepines
c. Is one of the few complexes that does not have multiple receptor subtypes
, d. Is only found in the brain stem - b. Can be activated by barbiturates and
benzodiazepines
Fetal alcohol syndrome is the leading cause of ___ in the Western world.
a. Miscarriages
b. Intellectual impairment
c. Multiple births
d. Infertility - b. Intellectual impairment
Barbiturates:
a. Are currently the drug of choice for treating anxiety
b. Are preferred over benzodiazepines because they are less dangerous
c. Selectively act to inhibit behavior at high doses
d. Are like alcohol in that they cause the release of glutamate - c. Selectively act to inhibit
behavior at high doses
Barbiturates are useful clinically because they:
a. Do not produce tolerance at clinical doses
b. Do not produce dependence at clinical doses
c. Are safe for most people regardless of other medications
d. Do not produce withdrawal symptoms when drug is stopped - a. Do not produce
tolerance at clinical doses
Barbiturates:
a. Inhibit glutamate activity
b. Inhibit GABAA activity, just like alcohol
c. Open the chloride channels in the GABA complex
d. All of the above - c. Open the chloride channels in the GABA complex
Benzodiazepines replaced barbiturates because:
a. They are not GABA agonists
Practice Questions with A+ Answers | Final Exam
Guide FOR 2025/2026 (the most recent quizzes)
Withdrawal symptoms produced by abstaining from a drug are:
a.Often opposite to the effects of the drug itself
b.Seen only in narcotics
c.Extremely severe in all cases
d.What maintains a drug habit - A
Opiate-based drugs have been used to treat all of the following except:
a. Coughing
b. Diarrhea
c. Depression
d. Cancer pain - Depression
A key reason for heroin being so addictive is that it:
a.Can be consumed in many ways
b.Easily and rapidly enters the brain
c.Produces euphoria followed by a phase of intense alertness
d.Has very aversive withdrawal symptoms - b.Easily and rapidly enters the brain
The conditioned tolerance study in your text suggests that:
a.Cocaine is very similar to caffeine
b.Nicotine can be both a stimulant and a depressant
c.Heroin overdose may occur when the drug is administered in a novel environment
d.Tolerance to alcohol often produces tolerance to marijuana - c.Heroin overdose may
occur when the drug is administered in a novel environment
,Depressants have all of the following effects except:
a. Hypnotic effects
b. Analgesic effects
c. Anxiolytic effects
d. Sedative effects - b. Analgesic effects
During withdrawal from chronic alcohol administration, you are not likely to see:
a. Tremors
b. Sleep disturbances
c. Anxiolytic effects
d. Mood disturbances - c. Anxiolytic effects
Delirium tremens:
a. Is an abnormal form of alcohol withdrawal
b. Is characterized by hallucinations, delusions and confusion
c. Is a behavioral condition where individuals exhibit anxiety, uncontrollable sweats, and a bad
body odor
d. All of the above - b. Is characterized by hallucinations, delusions and confusion (
Alcohol exerts its major effects on the ___ receptor, a complex that has at least five kinds of
receptors.
a. Dopamine
b. Glutamate
c. GABAA
d. GABAB - c. GABAA (*)
The GABAA receptor complex:
a. Seems to be responsible for drug addiction
b. Can be activated by barbiturates and benzodiazepines
c. Is one of the few complexes that does not have multiple receptor subtypes
, d. Is only found in the brain stem - b. Can be activated by barbiturates and
benzodiazepines
Fetal alcohol syndrome is the leading cause of ___ in the Western world.
a. Miscarriages
b. Intellectual impairment
c. Multiple births
d. Infertility - b. Intellectual impairment
Barbiturates:
a. Are currently the drug of choice for treating anxiety
b. Are preferred over benzodiazepines because they are less dangerous
c. Selectively act to inhibit behavior at high doses
d. Are like alcohol in that they cause the release of glutamate - c. Selectively act to inhibit
behavior at high doses
Barbiturates are useful clinically because they:
a. Do not produce tolerance at clinical doses
b. Do not produce dependence at clinical doses
c. Are safe for most people regardless of other medications
d. Do not produce withdrawal symptoms when drug is stopped - a. Do not produce
tolerance at clinical doses
Barbiturates:
a. Inhibit glutamate activity
b. Inhibit GABAA activity, just like alcohol
c. Open the chloride channels in the GABA complex
d. All of the above - c. Open the chloride channels in the GABA complex
Benzodiazepines replaced barbiturates because:
a. They are not GABA agonists
