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WGU - C458 - Health, Wellness and
Fitness Questions and Correct Answers
Amphetamines
Ans✅✅: Uppers, stimulants. Legitimate and useful medical
applications, but often abused. Example Ritalin for ADHD. Adderall for
obesity, ADHD and narcolepsy.
Ecstasy
Ans✅✅: MDMA. Club drug often used at all night dance parties (raves).
Stimulant that increases heart rate and blood pressure and can lead to
heart or kidney failure; regular use produces long-lasting, perhaps
permanent, damage to your brains ability to think and store memories.
Hallucinogens
Ans✅✅: Substances that occur naturally or produce synthetically that
distort user's perception of reality; cause sensory illusions that make
it difficult to distinguish fact from fantasy. Example: LSD, peyote, PCP.
Barbiturates
Ans✅✅: Historically represented one of nations biggest drug abuse
problems. Generally known as downers, often taken as a way of escaping
problems of daily living. Effects range from person feeling drowsy,
uninhibited, and intoxicated to intoxication and staggering as if drunk,
slurred speech, confused.
Nicotine
Ans✅✅: Found in tobacco. Potent parasympathetic alkaloid, stimulant
drug, addictive. Associated with cardiovascular disease, potential birth
defects, and poisoning. Associated with cancer.
Suppositories
Pretest - Stuvia US
,2
Ans✅✅: Drug delivery system inserted into rectum, vagina, or urethra
where it dissolves or melts and is absorbed into the bloodstream.
Diuretics
Ans✅✅: Promotes production of urine. Used for high blood pressure.
Often used by bulimics for weight loss.
Intravenous injection
Ans✅✅: A route of drug administration directly into the bloodstream
through a vein. Yield sstrongest and most rapid effact but is most
dangerous due to risk of infection, vein collapse, or overdose.
Intramuscular injection
Ans✅✅: A route of drug administration; injected into the muscle.
Drug abuse
Ans✅✅: Generally refers to chronic, excessive use of a drug. May also
refer to a person's intent.
Drug inhibition (receptor site)
Ans✅✅:
THC
Ans✅✅: Active ingredient in marijuana. Connects to nerve cell sites
and brain called cannabinoid receptors and influences the activity of
those cells. Influences pleasure, memory, thought, concentration, sensory
and time perception, and coordinated movement. Increases risk of heart
attack. Increases risk of cancer. Can lead to depression anxiety and
personality disturbances. Causes birth defects. Can be used for medical
purposes: glaucoma, Chemotherapy cause to nausea and vomiting, appetite
stimulant, antiasthmatic, seizures, muscle relaxant action.
Receptor sites (of a drug)
Pretest - Stuvia US
, 3
Ans✅✅: Target cells for drugs.
OTC drugs
Ans✅✅: Over-the-counter drugs; such as, cough medicine, pain
medication, allergy medication that don't require prescriptions.
Tolerance
Ans✅✅: Some drugs are used frequently, large doses are required to
maintain the same effect
Anabolic steroids
Ans✅✅: Synthetic variant of the male sex hormone testosterone
Opioids
Ans✅✅: Substances that act on the nervous system, medications that
are artificially made, reduce the intensity of pain signals reaching the
brain and affect those brain areas controlling emotion which diminishes
the effects of a painful stimulus; Morphine, tramadol, oxycodone,
methadone
Endorphins
Ans✅✅: Endogenous opioid neuropeptides. Produced by central nervous
system and pituitary gland. Released during exercise, interact with the
receptors in your brain to reduce perception of pain, trigger positive
body feeling, similar to morphine
GRASE list (FDA)
Ans✅✅: Generally recognized as safe by the FDA for use in food and
drugs
Epinephrine
Pretest - Stuvia US
WGU - C458 - Health, Wellness and
Fitness Questions and Correct Answers
Amphetamines
Ans✅✅: Uppers, stimulants. Legitimate and useful medical
applications, but often abused. Example Ritalin for ADHD. Adderall for
obesity, ADHD and narcolepsy.
Ecstasy
Ans✅✅: MDMA. Club drug often used at all night dance parties (raves).
Stimulant that increases heart rate and blood pressure and can lead to
heart or kidney failure; regular use produces long-lasting, perhaps
permanent, damage to your brains ability to think and store memories.
Hallucinogens
Ans✅✅: Substances that occur naturally or produce synthetically that
distort user's perception of reality; cause sensory illusions that make
it difficult to distinguish fact from fantasy. Example: LSD, peyote, PCP.
Barbiturates
Ans✅✅: Historically represented one of nations biggest drug abuse
problems. Generally known as downers, often taken as a way of escaping
problems of daily living. Effects range from person feeling drowsy,
uninhibited, and intoxicated to intoxication and staggering as if drunk,
slurred speech, confused.
Nicotine
Ans✅✅: Found in tobacco. Potent parasympathetic alkaloid, stimulant
drug, addictive. Associated with cardiovascular disease, potential birth
defects, and poisoning. Associated with cancer.
Suppositories
Pretest - Stuvia US
,2
Ans✅✅: Drug delivery system inserted into rectum, vagina, or urethra
where it dissolves or melts and is absorbed into the bloodstream.
Diuretics
Ans✅✅: Promotes production of urine. Used for high blood pressure.
Often used by bulimics for weight loss.
Intravenous injection
Ans✅✅: A route of drug administration directly into the bloodstream
through a vein. Yield sstrongest and most rapid effact but is most
dangerous due to risk of infection, vein collapse, or overdose.
Intramuscular injection
Ans✅✅: A route of drug administration; injected into the muscle.
Drug abuse
Ans✅✅: Generally refers to chronic, excessive use of a drug. May also
refer to a person's intent.
Drug inhibition (receptor site)
Ans✅✅:
THC
Ans✅✅: Active ingredient in marijuana. Connects to nerve cell sites
and brain called cannabinoid receptors and influences the activity of
those cells. Influences pleasure, memory, thought, concentration, sensory
and time perception, and coordinated movement. Increases risk of heart
attack. Increases risk of cancer. Can lead to depression anxiety and
personality disturbances. Causes birth defects. Can be used for medical
purposes: glaucoma, Chemotherapy cause to nausea and vomiting, appetite
stimulant, antiasthmatic, seizures, muscle relaxant action.
Receptor sites (of a drug)
Pretest - Stuvia US
, 3
Ans✅✅: Target cells for drugs.
OTC drugs
Ans✅✅: Over-the-counter drugs; such as, cough medicine, pain
medication, allergy medication that don't require prescriptions.
Tolerance
Ans✅✅: Some drugs are used frequently, large doses are required to
maintain the same effect
Anabolic steroids
Ans✅✅: Synthetic variant of the male sex hormone testosterone
Opioids
Ans✅✅: Substances that act on the nervous system, medications that
are artificially made, reduce the intensity of pain signals reaching the
brain and affect those brain areas controlling emotion which diminishes
the effects of a painful stimulus; Morphine, tramadol, oxycodone,
methadone
Endorphins
Ans✅✅: Endogenous opioid neuropeptides. Produced by central nervous
system and pituitary gland. Released during exercise, interact with the
receptors in your brain to reduce perception of pain, trigger positive
body feeling, similar to morphine
GRASE list (FDA)
Ans✅✅: Generally recognized as safe by the FDA for use in food and
drugs
Epinephrine
Pretest - Stuvia US
