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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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A
Opiate-based drugs have been used to treat all of the following except:
a. Coughing
,b. Diarrhea
c. Depression
d. Cancer pain - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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
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, d. All of the above - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔b. Can be activated by
barbiturates and benzodiazepines
Fetal alcohol syndrome is the leading cause of ___ in the Western world.
a. Miscarriages
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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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A
Opiate-based drugs have been used to treat all of the following except:
a. Coughing
,b. Diarrhea
c. Depression
d. Cancer pain - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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
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, d. All of the above - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔b. Can be activated by
barbiturates and benzodiazepines
Fetal alcohol syndrome is the leading cause of ___ in the Western world.
a. Miscarriages
