LCDC TEXAS COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Behavioral tolerance - ✔✔when, after peiro of time repeated drug use the user is
able to modify their behav in hopes that others wont notice intoxication
a form of diminishing effect that takes place because the user becomes accustomed to
the effects of a given drug and how to act under its influence
✔✔Cross tolerance - ✔✔increased tolerance to effects of another drug in same class
✔✔Reverse tolerance - ✔✔kindling efect - indiv can become more senstive to drugs
rather than less sensitive
✔✔Dose - ✔✔amt of drug taken at any particular time
✔✔Half life - ✔✔length of time drug remains in body and continues to affect user
✔✔Threshold dose - ✔✔minimal dose - smallest amt of drug to produce detectable
response
✔✔Max effect - ✔✔greatest response from drug no matter the dose given or taken
✔✔Effective dose - ✔✔amt of drug necessary to get desired effect in about 50% of
those who use
✔✔Lethal dose - ✔✔dose of drug results in death
✔✔Therapeutic index - ✔✔dose determined to be safe for use and desired effect of
drug, determined by dividing the lethal dose by effective dose
✔✔Potency - ✔✔amt of drug needed to produce desired effect
,✔✔Additive Effect - ✔✔when two or more drugs used same time result are equal to the
sum of the actions of the drugs used
✔✔Synergistic interactions - ✔✔occur two or more drugs used same time, results are
greater than the sum of the actions of the drugs used
✔✔Antagonistic interactions - ✔✔occur when two or more drugs used same time,
results are less than the sum of the acitons of the drug or they cancel the effects of
each other
✔✔Oral - ✔✔mouth or swallowed - 15 min
✔✔Injected - ✔✔IV - few seconds to minutes
✔✔Inhalation - ✔✔inhaled into lungs, immediately or few sec
✔✔Snorted - ✔✔inhaled into nose absorbed through mucus membrances
✔✔Neurotransmitters - ✔✔chemical messengers
✔✔Gaba - ✔✔relates to inhibitory factors and slows communication
✔✔Norepinephrine - ✔✔A neurotransmitter involved in arousal, as well as in learning
and mood regulation
✔✔Dopamine - ✔✔neurotransmitter associated with movement, attention and learning
and the brain's pleasure and reward system.
✔✔Serotonin - ✔✔anxiety, depression and aggressiveness
Affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal
✔✔Acetylcholine - ✔✔arousal reactions or inhibitory factors
✔✔VTA - ✔✔bentral tegmental area and nucleus accumbens of brain make up leasure
center, responsible for reward sys for all drugs
✔✔Abuse potential - ✔✔speed of action and how long lasts/ and social factors
✔✔Schedule I - ✔✔high level of abuse/dep, no accepted medical, heroin, lsd, marijuana
✔✔Schedule II - ✔✔some medical use, restrictions of manufaucturing, prescriptions not
refillable
, ✔✔Schedule III - ✔✔moderate to low physical dep, high psychological dep, medical
uses; steriords, barbituates, ketamine
✔✔Schedule IV - ✔✔low physical dep, moderate psychologcal dep, xanax, barbitatues,
chloral hydrate
✔✔Schedule V - ✔✔low risk for either; medical mixture of opium or codeine
✔✔Depressants - ✔✔slow CNS, decreases alertness and judgment, binds to GABA
inhibitor receptors
✔✔Alcohol W/D - ✔✔anxiety, hyper arousal, elevated vitals, sweating, shakes, altered
perceptin, visual/tactile hallucinations and illusions/swizures, possible death if combined
with alco or barbituate
✔✔Cocaine - ✔✔snorting - 20 to 30 min, remains brain 2/3 days, affects dopamine,
norepinephrine and serotonin; blocks reuptake of dopamine increasing amt and
prolonging the dopamine effect
✔✔Amphetamine - ✔✔direct the release of dopamine and norepinephrine and blocks
reuptake creating euphoric effect
✔✔Meth - ✔✔smoke, immediate intense rush lasts few min
✔✔Stimulants produce - ✔✔alertness, well being, euphoria, increased engry,anxiety,
medical prob, cardiac, cns, respiratory and potential death
✔✔Stimulants - ✔✔tolerance and dependence, snxiety, confusion, social w/d, weight
loss, psychosis, potential death, ireversable prob with CNS
✔✔Stimulant W/D - ✔✔depression with suicidal thoughts, excessive need for sleep,
fatigue, increased appetite, drug craving, not life threathening but suicide potential high
✔✔Hallucinogens - ✔✔change sensory perceptino and alter reality; hallicunations
naturally occuring and synthetically prepared drugs
✔✔LSD side effects - ✔✔panic attacks, increased blood pressure, heart palpitations,
tremors, nausea, muscle weakness, increased temp,
✔✔LSD - ✔✔structured like serotonin and binds to receptors
✔✔MDMA - ✔✔nausea, clenching of jaw, blurred vision, painic attacks, confusion,
depression, paranoid psychosis, increased temp, cardiac arrest
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Behavioral tolerance - ✔✔when, after peiro of time repeated drug use the user is
able to modify their behav in hopes that others wont notice intoxication
a form of diminishing effect that takes place because the user becomes accustomed to
the effects of a given drug and how to act under its influence
✔✔Cross tolerance - ✔✔increased tolerance to effects of another drug in same class
✔✔Reverse tolerance - ✔✔kindling efect - indiv can become more senstive to drugs
rather than less sensitive
✔✔Dose - ✔✔amt of drug taken at any particular time
✔✔Half life - ✔✔length of time drug remains in body and continues to affect user
✔✔Threshold dose - ✔✔minimal dose - smallest amt of drug to produce detectable
response
✔✔Max effect - ✔✔greatest response from drug no matter the dose given or taken
✔✔Effective dose - ✔✔amt of drug necessary to get desired effect in about 50% of
those who use
✔✔Lethal dose - ✔✔dose of drug results in death
✔✔Therapeutic index - ✔✔dose determined to be safe for use and desired effect of
drug, determined by dividing the lethal dose by effective dose
✔✔Potency - ✔✔amt of drug needed to produce desired effect
,✔✔Additive Effect - ✔✔when two or more drugs used same time result are equal to the
sum of the actions of the drugs used
✔✔Synergistic interactions - ✔✔occur two or more drugs used same time, results are
greater than the sum of the actions of the drugs used
✔✔Antagonistic interactions - ✔✔occur when two or more drugs used same time,
results are less than the sum of the acitons of the drug or they cancel the effects of
each other
✔✔Oral - ✔✔mouth or swallowed - 15 min
✔✔Injected - ✔✔IV - few seconds to minutes
✔✔Inhalation - ✔✔inhaled into lungs, immediately or few sec
✔✔Snorted - ✔✔inhaled into nose absorbed through mucus membrances
✔✔Neurotransmitters - ✔✔chemical messengers
✔✔Gaba - ✔✔relates to inhibitory factors and slows communication
✔✔Norepinephrine - ✔✔A neurotransmitter involved in arousal, as well as in learning
and mood regulation
✔✔Dopamine - ✔✔neurotransmitter associated with movement, attention and learning
and the brain's pleasure and reward system.
✔✔Serotonin - ✔✔anxiety, depression and aggressiveness
Affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal
✔✔Acetylcholine - ✔✔arousal reactions or inhibitory factors
✔✔VTA - ✔✔bentral tegmental area and nucleus accumbens of brain make up leasure
center, responsible for reward sys for all drugs
✔✔Abuse potential - ✔✔speed of action and how long lasts/ and social factors
✔✔Schedule I - ✔✔high level of abuse/dep, no accepted medical, heroin, lsd, marijuana
✔✔Schedule II - ✔✔some medical use, restrictions of manufaucturing, prescriptions not
refillable
, ✔✔Schedule III - ✔✔moderate to low physical dep, high psychological dep, medical
uses; steriords, barbituates, ketamine
✔✔Schedule IV - ✔✔low physical dep, moderate psychologcal dep, xanax, barbitatues,
chloral hydrate
✔✔Schedule V - ✔✔low risk for either; medical mixture of opium or codeine
✔✔Depressants - ✔✔slow CNS, decreases alertness and judgment, binds to GABA
inhibitor receptors
✔✔Alcohol W/D - ✔✔anxiety, hyper arousal, elevated vitals, sweating, shakes, altered
perceptin, visual/tactile hallucinations and illusions/swizures, possible death if combined
with alco or barbituate
✔✔Cocaine - ✔✔snorting - 20 to 30 min, remains brain 2/3 days, affects dopamine,
norepinephrine and serotonin; blocks reuptake of dopamine increasing amt and
prolonging the dopamine effect
✔✔Amphetamine - ✔✔direct the release of dopamine and norepinephrine and blocks
reuptake creating euphoric effect
✔✔Meth - ✔✔smoke, immediate intense rush lasts few min
✔✔Stimulants produce - ✔✔alertness, well being, euphoria, increased engry,anxiety,
medical prob, cardiac, cns, respiratory and potential death
✔✔Stimulants - ✔✔tolerance and dependence, snxiety, confusion, social w/d, weight
loss, psychosis, potential death, ireversable prob with CNS
✔✔Stimulant W/D - ✔✔depression with suicidal thoughts, excessive need for sleep,
fatigue, increased appetite, drug craving, not life threathening but suicide potential high
✔✔Hallucinogens - ✔✔change sensory perceptino and alter reality; hallicunations
naturally occuring and synthetically prepared drugs
✔✔LSD side effects - ✔✔panic attacks, increased blood pressure, heart palpitations,
tremors, nausea, muscle weakness, increased temp,
✔✔LSD - ✔✔structured like serotonin and binds to receptors
✔✔MDMA - ✔✔nausea, clenching of jaw, blurred vision, painic attacks, confusion,
depression, paranoid psychosis, increased temp, cardiac arrest
