WGU - C458 - Health, Wellness and
Fitness questions well answered
Amphetamines - correct answer ✔✔Uppers, stimulants. Legitimate and useful medical
applications, but often abused. Example Ritalin for ADHD. Adderall for obesity, ADHD and
narcolepsy.
Ecstasy - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔Found in tobacco. Potent parasympathetic alkaloid, stimulant
drug, addictive. Associated with cardiovascular disease, potential birth defects, and poisoning.
Associated with cancer.
Suppositories - correct answer ✔✔Drug delivery system inserted into rectum, vagina, or urethra
where it dissolves or melts and is absorbed into the bloodstream.
,Diuretics - correct answer ✔✔Promotes production of urine. Used for high blood pressure.
Often used by bulimics for weight loss.
Intravenous injection - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔A route of drug administration; injected into the
muscle.
Drug abuse - correct answer ✔✔Generally refers to chronic, excessive use of a drug. May also
refer to a person's intent.
Drug inhibition (receptor site) - correct answer ✔✔
THC - correct answer ✔✔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) - correct answer ✔✔Target cells for drugs.
OTC drugs - correct answer ✔✔Over-the-counter drugs; such as, cough medicine, pain
medication, allergy medication that don't require prescriptions.
Tolerance - correct answer ✔✔Some drugs are used frequently, large doses are required to
maintain the same effect
, Anabolic steroids - correct answer ✔✔Synthetic variant of the male sex hormone testosterone
Opioids - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔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) - correct answer ✔✔Generally recognized as safe by the FDA for use in food
and drugs
Epinephrine - correct answer ✔✔Sometimes called adrenaline; secreted by the adrenal
medulla; stimulation of the meulla by the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous
system causes release of hormones, especially epinephrine, into the blood to initiate short-term
fight or flight response to stress
Synergism - correct answer ✔✔Combined action of drugs is greater than the sum of the effects
of anyone drug taking a loan. For example, some drugs potentiate or increase the effects of
another drug.
Prostaglandin inhibitors - correct answer ✔✔NSAIDs. Medications that act on prostaglandins,
compounds that regulate muscle contractions.
Benzodiazepines - correct answer ✔✔Class of psychoactive drug; court chemical structure is
fusion of benzene ring and a diazepine ring. Examples: diazepam (Valium), alpazolam (Xanax),
clonazepam (klonopin), Lorazepam (Ativan), MIdazolam
Fitness questions well answered
Amphetamines - correct answer ✔✔Uppers, stimulants. Legitimate and useful medical
applications, but often abused. Example Ritalin for ADHD. Adderall for obesity, ADHD and
narcolepsy.
Ecstasy - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔Found in tobacco. Potent parasympathetic alkaloid, stimulant
drug, addictive. Associated with cardiovascular disease, potential birth defects, and poisoning.
Associated with cancer.
Suppositories - correct answer ✔✔Drug delivery system inserted into rectum, vagina, or urethra
where it dissolves or melts and is absorbed into the bloodstream.
,Diuretics - correct answer ✔✔Promotes production of urine. Used for high blood pressure.
Often used by bulimics for weight loss.
Intravenous injection - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔A route of drug administration; injected into the
muscle.
Drug abuse - correct answer ✔✔Generally refers to chronic, excessive use of a drug. May also
refer to a person's intent.
Drug inhibition (receptor site) - correct answer ✔✔
THC - correct answer ✔✔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) - correct answer ✔✔Target cells for drugs.
OTC drugs - correct answer ✔✔Over-the-counter drugs; such as, cough medicine, pain
medication, allergy medication that don't require prescriptions.
Tolerance - correct answer ✔✔Some drugs are used frequently, large doses are required to
maintain the same effect
, Anabolic steroids - correct answer ✔✔Synthetic variant of the male sex hormone testosterone
Opioids - correct answer ✔✔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 - correct answer ✔✔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) - correct answer ✔✔Generally recognized as safe by the FDA for use in food
and drugs
Epinephrine - correct answer ✔✔Sometimes called adrenaline; secreted by the adrenal
medulla; stimulation of the meulla by the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous
system causes release of hormones, especially epinephrine, into the blood to initiate short-term
fight or flight response to stress
Synergism - correct answer ✔✔Combined action of drugs is greater than the sum of the effects
of anyone drug taking a loan. For example, some drugs potentiate or increase the effects of
another drug.
Prostaglandin inhibitors - correct answer ✔✔NSAIDs. Medications that act on prostaglandins,
compounds that regulate muscle contractions.
Benzodiazepines - correct answer ✔✔Class of psychoactive drug; court chemical structure is
fusion of benzene ring and a diazepine ring. Examples: diazepam (Valium), alpazolam (Xanax),
clonazepam (klonopin), Lorazepam (Ativan), MIdazolam
