TEST BANK Drugs, Behaviour and Society 4CE Hebb
Chap 01. Drug Use: An Overview
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) The majority of Canadians do NOT perceive drug and alcohol abuse to be serious problems
in Canada.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) We can get an idea of why someone is using a drug by examining when and where he or she
uses it.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) There are some drugs that we should just define as being bad drugs.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) Every drug has multiple effects.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) Illicit drug is a term used to refer to a drug that is unlawful to possess or use.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) The Harm Reduction model of drug treatment accepts that there may be other acceptable
outcomes than drug abstinence.
⊚ true
⊚ false
7) Drug misuse generally refers to the use of prescribed drugs in greater amounts than, or for
purposes other than, those prescribed by a physician or dentist.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) Being willing to fight seems to be an important protective factor against substance use.
⊚ true
⊚ false
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,9) Impulsivity is one personality factor that is associated with higher rates of substance abuse
and dependence.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) If John wants to enhance the likelihood he hires someone who is more likely to NOT smoke
marijuana, research considering gender, socioeconomic status, and level of education would
suggest he hire a female with a university education.
⊚ true
⊚ false
MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
11) What were the questions who, what, why, when, where, how, and how much introduced to
do?
A) Understand the dependence potential of a drug.
B) Help us evaluate whether a particular type of drug use is a problem.
C) Determine the toxicity of a drug.
D) Track arrest data for drug law violations.
12) If a substance is consistently used in a particular kind of situations (e.g., at parties, as
opposed to when one is alone), what can it help us understand?
A) The amount of the substance being used.
B) The type of substance being used.
C) The reason the substance is being used.
D) Who is using the substance?
13) After reading the opening content of your textbook if you read an article that stated
Indigenous South Americans who chew coca leaves absorb cocaine slowly over a long
period. What investigative question has been introduced?
A) How long the drug has been taken.
B) How much of the drug has been taken.
C) Where the drug has been taken.
D) How the drug was taken.
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,14) The media has been reporting on drug use ranging from methamphetamine to ecstasy to glue
sniffing. How have these various examples been described in the media?
A) The "drug du jour"
B) Drug use: a laissez-faire reality
C) Drugs that are always bad drugs
D) Drug use by celebrities
15) What did a 2019 survey of high school students in Ontario reveal regarding the use of ecstasy
in the previous 12-month period?
A) Less than 1% of the students self-reported using ecstasy
B) 2.3% of the students self-reported using ecstasy
C) 5.4% of the students self-reported using ecstasy
D) 15.4% of the students self-reported using ecstasy
16) According to your textbook in the mid-1980s, was the "drug du jour?
A) alcohol shots
B) crack cocaine
C) marijuana
D) speed
17) A survey completed regarding drug use and Aboriginals living on reserves in Canada
reported that most youth who tried solvents did so by which age?
A) ten years
B) eleven years
C) thirteen years
D) fourteen years
18) How a drug exists is an important fact to consider. For instance, compared to smoking
cocaine in the form of "crack", how will Indigenous South Americans who chew coca leaves
absorb cocaine?
A) Quickly over a short period of time.
B) Slowly over a short period of time.
C) Slowly over a long period.
D) Quickly and continuously over a long period.
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, 19) All of the following EXCEPT which one, are examples of harm reduction measures reflected
in Canada's Drug Strategy, to reduce the damage associated with alcohol and drugs?
A) Television educational campaigns
B) Safe injection sites
C) Methadone maintenance therapy
D) Syringe exchange programs
20) What is one of the four principles of psychoactive drug use?
A) All psychoactive drugs should be banned.
B) Most people are unable to control their own drug use.
C) Every drug has an opposite drug that can counteract it.
D) Drugs, per se, are not good or bad.
21) One of the four principles of psychoactive drugs is that every drug has what?
A) effects on the heart
B) impurities
C) multiple effects
D) mind altering potential
22) According to the four principles of psychoactive drug use would state; "the effect of any
psychoactive drug depends on ___________________."
A) the individual's history and expectations
B) its legal status
C) the user's diet
D) the user's unique brain chemistry
23) Which term describes use of prescribed drugs in greater amounts than, or for purposes other
than, those prescribed by a physician or dentist.
A) Addiction
B) Drug misuse
C) Drug Abuse
D) Dependence
24) Which term is used to describe, the use of a substance in a manner, amount, or situation such
that the drug causes problems or greatly increases the chances of problems occurring?
A) Addiction
B) Dependence
C) Abuse
D) Tolerance
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Chap 01. Drug Use: An Overview
TRUE/FALSE - Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false.
1) The majority of Canadians do NOT perceive drug and alcohol abuse to be serious problems
in Canada.
⊚ true
⊚ false
2) We can get an idea of why someone is using a drug by examining when and where he or she
uses it.
⊚ true
⊚ false
3) There are some drugs that we should just define as being bad drugs.
⊚ true
⊚ false
4) Every drug has multiple effects.
⊚ true
⊚ false
5) Illicit drug is a term used to refer to a drug that is unlawful to possess or use.
⊚ true
⊚ false
6) The Harm Reduction model of drug treatment accepts that there may be other acceptable
outcomes than drug abstinence.
⊚ true
⊚ false
7) Drug misuse generally refers to the use of prescribed drugs in greater amounts than, or for
purposes other than, those prescribed by a physician or dentist.
⊚ true
⊚ false
8) Being willing to fight seems to be an important protective factor against substance use.
⊚ true
⊚ false
1
,9) Impulsivity is one personality factor that is associated with higher rates of substance abuse
and dependence.
⊚ true
⊚ false
10) If John wants to enhance the likelihood he hires someone who is more likely to NOT smoke
marijuana, research considering gender, socioeconomic status, and level of education would
suggest he hire a female with a university education.
⊚ true
⊚ false
MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
11) What were the questions who, what, why, when, where, how, and how much introduced to
do?
A) Understand the dependence potential of a drug.
B) Help us evaluate whether a particular type of drug use is a problem.
C) Determine the toxicity of a drug.
D) Track arrest data for drug law violations.
12) If a substance is consistently used in a particular kind of situations (e.g., at parties, as
opposed to when one is alone), what can it help us understand?
A) The amount of the substance being used.
B) The type of substance being used.
C) The reason the substance is being used.
D) Who is using the substance?
13) After reading the opening content of your textbook if you read an article that stated
Indigenous South Americans who chew coca leaves absorb cocaine slowly over a long
period. What investigative question has been introduced?
A) How long the drug has been taken.
B) How much of the drug has been taken.
C) Where the drug has been taken.
D) How the drug was taken.
2
,14) The media has been reporting on drug use ranging from methamphetamine to ecstasy to glue
sniffing. How have these various examples been described in the media?
A) The "drug du jour"
B) Drug use: a laissez-faire reality
C) Drugs that are always bad drugs
D) Drug use by celebrities
15) What did a 2019 survey of high school students in Ontario reveal regarding the use of ecstasy
in the previous 12-month period?
A) Less than 1% of the students self-reported using ecstasy
B) 2.3% of the students self-reported using ecstasy
C) 5.4% of the students self-reported using ecstasy
D) 15.4% of the students self-reported using ecstasy
16) According to your textbook in the mid-1980s, was the "drug du jour?
A) alcohol shots
B) crack cocaine
C) marijuana
D) speed
17) A survey completed regarding drug use and Aboriginals living on reserves in Canada
reported that most youth who tried solvents did so by which age?
A) ten years
B) eleven years
C) thirteen years
D) fourteen years
18) How a drug exists is an important fact to consider. For instance, compared to smoking
cocaine in the form of "crack", how will Indigenous South Americans who chew coca leaves
absorb cocaine?
A) Quickly over a short period of time.
B) Slowly over a short period of time.
C) Slowly over a long period.
D) Quickly and continuously over a long period.
3
, 19) All of the following EXCEPT which one, are examples of harm reduction measures reflected
in Canada's Drug Strategy, to reduce the damage associated with alcohol and drugs?
A) Television educational campaigns
B) Safe injection sites
C) Methadone maintenance therapy
D) Syringe exchange programs
20) What is one of the four principles of psychoactive drug use?
A) All psychoactive drugs should be banned.
B) Most people are unable to control their own drug use.
C) Every drug has an opposite drug that can counteract it.
D) Drugs, per se, are not good or bad.
21) One of the four principles of psychoactive drugs is that every drug has what?
A) effects on the heart
B) impurities
C) multiple effects
D) mind altering potential
22) According to the four principles of psychoactive drug use would state; "the effect of any
psychoactive drug depends on ___________________."
A) the individual's history and expectations
B) its legal status
C) the user's diet
D) the user's unique brain chemistry
23) Which term describes use of prescribed drugs in greater amounts than, or for purposes other
than, those prescribed by a physician or dentist.
A) Addiction
B) Drug misuse
C) Drug Abuse
D) Dependence
24) Which term is used to describe, the use of a substance in a manner, amount, or situation such
that the drug causes problems or greatly increases the chances of problems occurring?
A) Addiction
B) Dependence
C) Abuse
D) Tolerance
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