PYB159 Exam UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
What are influences surrounding the stereotypes of drug users? - CORRECT
ANSWER -media
-film, tv, music
-other people's attitudes
-myths
family history
How long ago was alcohol consumption introduced/used? - CORRECT ANSWER at
least 8000 years
How long ago was tobacco introduced/used? - CORRECT ANSWER thousands of
years
How long ago was opium introduced/used? - CORRECT ANSWER 7000 years ago in
Mesopotamia
How long ago was hallucinogens introduced/used? - CORRECT ANSWER 9000 years
Historically drugs have what uses? - CORRECT ANSWER -ritualisti
-ceremonial
-medicinal
What do elephants use as a drug? - CORRECT ANSWER Elephants feed from the
alcoholic manula tree
What is the drug effect of pufferfish? - CORRECT ANSWER Pufferfish produces a
toxin that is numbing if ingested in small amounts by dolphins, but also highly dangerous
,What is the history of alcohol and other drugs in Australia? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Aboriginal people had limited contact with psychoactive substances - some plant-based
stimulants and depressants
-First Fleet: medicines, drugs and hemp seeds for protection "warm climates and tropical
diseases"
-Early governments actively supported the growing of hemp:
· Land and other grants
· Popular as a medicine
· Used as an intoxicant by members of the literati
-Heavy drinking has been a 'cultural norm' since colonisation
What was the drug use pattern in the late 1800's in Australia? - CORRECT
ANSWER Drug use in the late 1800s was mainly opium and cocaine-based stimulants
Who commonly used opium and cocaine-based stimulants in the late 1800's in Australia? -
CORRECT ANSWER -Used by doctors / nurses, the middle-upper class, housewives
-Later by Chinese immigrants
Why did housewives in the late 1800's in Australia use opium and cocaine-based stimulants?
- CORRECT ANSWER Depression and menstrual pain
What were the attitudes of drug use during the 19th century? - CORRECT
ANSWER "The lack of drug regulation in the nineteenth century reflected the public's
right to treat themselves... Patent medicines were an important part of that right because they
were available from chemist's or grocers' shelves, without prescription, if and when the
customer wanted them" (Manderson)
·What was heroin used for in the 1800's? - CORRECT ANSWER Heroin was sold as a
cough suppressor/ cold medicine
What is the percentage of legally produced morphine consumed in the 1930's in Australia? -
CORRECT ANSWER In the mid-1930s Australia had less than 1% of the world's
population but consumed 14% of the worlds legally produced morphine.
,What did cocaine claim to cure in the 1800's? - CORRECT ANSWER Cocaine was
claimed to cure toothache and dandruff
What drug was used in medicinal tonics in the 1800's? - CORRECT
ANSWER Cocaine
What alcohol rebellion was seen in 1808? - CORRECT ANSWER Rub rebellion
What alcohol prohibition movement was seen in 1830's/ world war 1/ great depression? What
was this movement about? - CORRECT ANSWER -The temperance movement
· Prohibition in states of Australia
· In 1837, laws were passed to prevent Aboriginal access to alcohol
What was the six o'clock swill? - CORRECT ANSWER The six o'clock swill was an
Australian and New Zealand slang term for the last-minute rush to buy drinks at a hotel bar
before it closed. During a significant part of the 20th century, most Australian and New
Zealand hotels shut their public bars at 6 pm.
What act were dangerous substances covered under until 1980's? - CORRECT
ANSWER Until the 1980's dangerous substances were covered under the poisons acts
of each colony
What act was implemented in 1905 and what was it about? - CORRECT
ANSWER Australia's first laws prohibiting certain drug use came in 1905 under the
immigrant act. Followed by laws against giving opium to Aboriginal people except under
urgent medical circumstances
The perception of opium smokers - CORRECT ANSWER "From being seen as a dirty
habit in a dirty people, opium smoking came to be seen as an immoral habit in a hated
people." Manderson
, In 1938 what was cannabis outlawed as? - CORRECT ANSWER 'New drug that
maddens victims'
What campaign was used for cannabis between 1936-39? - CORRECT
ANSWER 'Reefer madness' campaign
What was cannabis seen as from the 1930's? - CORRECT ANSWER Perception of a
significant social problem
What was the result of the 1930's poor cannabis perception? - CORRECT
ANSWER New drug control laws were enacted from the state and federal
From the twentieth century what happened with the distribution of dangerous drugs? -
CORRECT ANSWER -Where once chemists and grocers dispensed over the counter
medicines in the first few decades of the twentieth century these substances gradually came to
be under the control of the medical profession.
-Control over the distribution of 'dangerous drugs' had passed from the hands of the public
and of chemists into the hands of the medical profession. Drug use was no longer seen as a
matter of individual choice. It was a medical issue, to be decided not by the public, but for
them.
What did breaking the law do for the perception of drug use? - CORRECT
ANSWER By defining all users of illegal drugs as addicts, breaking the law itself
became a sign of illness ... Non-conformists were ill - their conduct was not a conscious
decision to disobey the law, but a compulsion over which they had no control. Slowly but
surely, the villain was becoming a victim
True or false? Up until the late 1960's there were many law enforcement resources devoted to
policing drug laws - CORRECT ANSWER False. There were very few law
enforcement resources devoted to policing drug laws
In the 1960 and 70's there was an increase in what illicit drugs? - CORRECT
ANSWER -Heroin
-Cannabis
CORRECT ANSWERS
What are influences surrounding the stereotypes of drug users? - CORRECT
ANSWER -media
-film, tv, music
-other people's attitudes
-myths
family history
How long ago was alcohol consumption introduced/used? - CORRECT ANSWER at
least 8000 years
How long ago was tobacco introduced/used? - CORRECT ANSWER thousands of
years
How long ago was opium introduced/used? - CORRECT ANSWER 7000 years ago in
Mesopotamia
How long ago was hallucinogens introduced/used? - CORRECT ANSWER 9000 years
Historically drugs have what uses? - CORRECT ANSWER -ritualisti
-ceremonial
-medicinal
What do elephants use as a drug? - CORRECT ANSWER Elephants feed from the
alcoholic manula tree
What is the drug effect of pufferfish? - CORRECT ANSWER Pufferfish produces a
toxin that is numbing if ingested in small amounts by dolphins, but also highly dangerous
,What is the history of alcohol and other drugs in Australia? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Aboriginal people had limited contact with psychoactive substances - some plant-based
stimulants and depressants
-First Fleet: medicines, drugs and hemp seeds for protection "warm climates and tropical
diseases"
-Early governments actively supported the growing of hemp:
· Land and other grants
· Popular as a medicine
· Used as an intoxicant by members of the literati
-Heavy drinking has been a 'cultural norm' since colonisation
What was the drug use pattern in the late 1800's in Australia? - CORRECT
ANSWER Drug use in the late 1800s was mainly opium and cocaine-based stimulants
Who commonly used opium and cocaine-based stimulants in the late 1800's in Australia? -
CORRECT ANSWER -Used by doctors / nurses, the middle-upper class, housewives
-Later by Chinese immigrants
Why did housewives in the late 1800's in Australia use opium and cocaine-based stimulants?
- CORRECT ANSWER Depression and menstrual pain
What were the attitudes of drug use during the 19th century? - CORRECT
ANSWER "The lack of drug regulation in the nineteenth century reflected the public's
right to treat themselves... Patent medicines were an important part of that right because they
were available from chemist's or grocers' shelves, without prescription, if and when the
customer wanted them" (Manderson)
·What was heroin used for in the 1800's? - CORRECT ANSWER Heroin was sold as a
cough suppressor/ cold medicine
What is the percentage of legally produced morphine consumed in the 1930's in Australia? -
CORRECT ANSWER In the mid-1930s Australia had less than 1% of the world's
population but consumed 14% of the worlds legally produced morphine.
,What did cocaine claim to cure in the 1800's? - CORRECT ANSWER Cocaine was
claimed to cure toothache and dandruff
What drug was used in medicinal tonics in the 1800's? - CORRECT
ANSWER Cocaine
What alcohol rebellion was seen in 1808? - CORRECT ANSWER Rub rebellion
What alcohol prohibition movement was seen in 1830's/ world war 1/ great depression? What
was this movement about? - CORRECT ANSWER -The temperance movement
· Prohibition in states of Australia
· In 1837, laws were passed to prevent Aboriginal access to alcohol
What was the six o'clock swill? - CORRECT ANSWER The six o'clock swill was an
Australian and New Zealand slang term for the last-minute rush to buy drinks at a hotel bar
before it closed. During a significant part of the 20th century, most Australian and New
Zealand hotels shut their public bars at 6 pm.
What act were dangerous substances covered under until 1980's? - CORRECT
ANSWER Until the 1980's dangerous substances were covered under the poisons acts
of each colony
What act was implemented in 1905 and what was it about? - CORRECT
ANSWER Australia's first laws prohibiting certain drug use came in 1905 under the
immigrant act. Followed by laws against giving opium to Aboriginal people except under
urgent medical circumstances
The perception of opium smokers - CORRECT ANSWER "From being seen as a dirty
habit in a dirty people, opium smoking came to be seen as an immoral habit in a hated
people." Manderson
, In 1938 what was cannabis outlawed as? - CORRECT ANSWER 'New drug that
maddens victims'
What campaign was used for cannabis between 1936-39? - CORRECT
ANSWER 'Reefer madness' campaign
What was cannabis seen as from the 1930's? - CORRECT ANSWER Perception of a
significant social problem
What was the result of the 1930's poor cannabis perception? - CORRECT
ANSWER New drug control laws were enacted from the state and federal
From the twentieth century what happened with the distribution of dangerous drugs? -
CORRECT ANSWER -Where once chemists and grocers dispensed over the counter
medicines in the first few decades of the twentieth century these substances gradually came to
be under the control of the medical profession.
-Control over the distribution of 'dangerous drugs' had passed from the hands of the public
and of chemists into the hands of the medical profession. Drug use was no longer seen as a
matter of individual choice. It was a medical issue, to be decided not by the public, but for
them.
What did breaking the law do for the perception of drug use? - CORRECT
ANSWER By defining all users of illegal drugs as addicts, breaking the law itself
became a sign of illness ... Non-conformists were ill - their conduct was not a conscious
decision to disobey the law, but a compulsion over which they had no control. Slowly but
surely, the villain was becoming a victim
True or false? Up until the late 1960's there were many law enforcement resources devoted to
policing drug laws - CORRECT ANSWER False. There were very few law
enforcement resources devoted to policing drug laws
In the 1960 and 70's there was an increase in what illicit drugs? - CORRECT
ANSWER -Heroin
-Cannabis
