DRUGS & BEHAVIOR UTA EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
ALREADY GRADED A+
Motives for Drug Use Ans✓✓✓1. Who is taking the drug (i.e age)?
2. What drug are they taking (i.e licit vs illicit)?
3. When and where is the drug being used?
4. Why a person takes a drug (reason for drug use matters)?-
instrumental or recreational use
5. How is the drug taken (route of admission matters)?
6. How much of the drug is being used (dose matters)?
Instrumental Use Ans✓✓✓Person taking a drug with a specific socially-
approved goal in mind
Recreational Use Ans✓✓✓Person taking a drug for sole purpose of
experiencing its psychoactive properties (e.g to get "high")
Licit Ans✓✓✓Legal drug use--- Examples:
Instrumental Use- Taking a Valium with prescription for anxiety
Recreational Use- Having an alcoholic drink to relax before dinner
Illicit Ans✓✓✓Illegal drug use; a drug that is unlawful to possess or use
---Examples:
Instrumental Use- Taking amphetamines without prescription to stay
awake to study for a test
,Recreational Use- Smoking marijuana to get high
-recreational Marijuana most common
Routes of Admission Ans✓✓✓Orally, Rectally, Inhalation, Insufflation,
and through Injection (ex. IV)
Drug Ans✓✓✓Any substance (natural or artificial) other than food, that
by its chemical nature alters the structure of function in a living
organism.
Example: psychoactive drugs
-not good or bad but the behavior while using them
Extent of Drug Use Ans✓✓✓-Recently ~40% of 12th graders report
illicit drug use, as well as 30% of 10th graders and 20% of 8th graders;
though recently, drug use has stabilized since
- Use increased in the 80s, decreased in the 90s, and increased to
stabilize in the 00s-10s
-Leveling due to marijuana use
-Dishonesty on the other hand could effect the exact numbers on the
graph as well as not taking into account dropouts
Drug Graphs Ans✓✓✓-Use increases, Risk perception decreases,
disapproval stabilized/decreased, availability stabilized/increased
-Always look at the scale absolute values
, Drug Use Ans✓✓✓-Seeing a broad decline in drug usage (but it will
never be 0)
-We are stabilizing
-Historic lows of marijuana and alcohol
-Slight increase of prescription drug use
-Increased/stabilized marijuana use
-Males more likely to use drugs than females
- Increased education less likely to use drugs (ex. college graduates less
likely to use than high school graduates)
-Caucasians more likely to use drugs
Risk Factors for Adolescent Drug Use Ans✓✓✓-Having friends who
use drugs
-Engaging in antisocial activities. Also from the book: living in rough
neighborhoods, parents who don't provide social support, not being
involved religiously, not doing well in school, knowing adults who use
it, perceiving prevalent substance use at school, or have positive
attitudes toward use
Protective Factors against Adolescent Drug Use Ans✓✓✓-Strong
sanctions against drug use
-Social support from parents.
-Also from the book: perceived strong sanctions against substance use at
school, involved religiously, committed to school, and participating in 2
or more extracurriculars.
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
ALREADY GRADED A+
Motives for Drug Use Ans✓✓✓1. Who is taking the drug (i.e age)?
2. What drug are they taking (i.e licit vs illicit)?
3. When and where is the drug being used?
4. Why a person takes a drug (reason for drug use matters)?-
instrumental or recreational use
5. How is the drug taken (route of admission matters)?
6. How much of the drug is being used (dose matters)?
Instrumental Use Ans✓✓✓Person taking a drug with a specific socially-
approved goal in mind
Recreational Use Ans✓✓✓Person taking a drug for sole purpose of
experiencing its psychoactive properties (e.g to get "high")
Licit Ans✓✓✓Legal drug use--- Examples:
Instrumental Use- Taking a Valium with prescription for anxiety
Recreational Use- Having an alcoholic drink to relax before dinner
Illicit Ans✓✓✓Illegal drug use; a drug that is unlawful to possess or use
---Examples:
Instrumental Use- Taking amphetamines without prescription to stay
awake to study for a test
,Recreational Use- Smoking marijuana to get high
-recreational Marijuana most common
Routes of Admission Ans✓✓✓Orally, Rectally, Inhalation, Insufflation,
and through Injection (ex. IV)
Drug Ans✓✓✓Any substance (natural or artificial) other than food, that
by its chemical nature alters the structure of function in a living
organism.
Example: psychoactive drugs
-not good or bad but the behavior while using them
Extent of Drug Use Ans✓✓✓-Recently ~40% of 12th graders report
illicit drug use, as well as 30% of 10th graders and 20% of 8th graders;
though recently, drug use has stabilized since
- Use increased in the 80s, decreased in the 90s, and increased to
stabilize in the 00s-10s
-Leveling due to marijuana use
-Dishonesty on the other hand could effect the exact numbers on the
graph as well as not taking into account dropouts
Drug Graphs Ans✓✓✓-Use increases, Risk perception decreases,
disapproval stabilized/decreased, availability stabilized/increased
-Always look at the scale absolute values
, Drug Use Ans✓✓✓-Seeing a broad decline in drug usage (but it will
never be 0)
-We are stabilizing
-Historic lows of marijuana and alcohol
-Slight increase of prescription drug use
-Increased/stabilized marijuana use
-Males more likely to use drugs than females
- Increased education less likely to use drugs (ex. college graduates less
likely to use than high school graduates)
-Caucasians more likely to use drugs
Risk Factors for Adolescent Drug Use Ans✓✓✓-Having friends who
use drugs
-Engaging in antisocial activities. Also from the book: living in rough
neighborhoods, parents who don't provide social support, not being
involved religiously, not doing well in school, knowing adults who use
it, perceiving prevalent substance use at school, or have positive
attitudes toward use
Protective Factors against Adolescent Drug Use Ans✓✓✓-Strong
sanctions against drug use
-Social support from parents.
-Also from the book: perceived strong sanctions against substance use at
school, involved religiously, committed to school, and participating in 2
or more extracurriculars.
