Drug Awareness Class (FINAL) practice exam questions with 100% correct answers 2024

psycoactive drugs a chemical substance that effects the central nervous system and alters brain function, resulting in temporary changes in perception, mood, consciousness and behavior drug addiction a pattern of compulsive drug-taking that results in tolerance, withdrawal symptoms, or other specific symptoms for at least a year chippers people who are able to use a drug when they want to and then, even though the drug may be one thought quite addictive, discontinue at will final common pathway a theory that a multitude of different factors may cause a given individual to become addicted to drugs biotransformation the process, usually carried out in the liver, by which the body alters the chemical structure of a forgeign molecule to a form that can be eliminated or stored as energy depressants drugs (such as alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates) that reduce neural activity and slow body functions stimulants a substance that raises levels of physiological or nervous activity in the body hallucinogens psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input inhalants substances whose fumes are sniffed and inhaled to achieve a mind-altering effect steroids ..., Drugs that mimic hormone, used as anti-inflammatory agents, anti-allergy agents, and anti-stress agents. Used mostly by athletes to improve their muscle mass SIDS any sudden and unexplained death of an apparently healthy infant aged one month to one year (cot death, crib death) methadone a synthetic analgesic drug that is similar to morphine in its effects but longer acting, used as a substitute drug in the treatment of morphine and heroine addiction codependency excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, typically one with an illness or addiction who requires support enabling to behave knowingly in such a way as to make it possible for that person to continue to use chemicals without having to pay the natural consequences Minnosota Model Drug Treatment a comprehensive form of drug addiction therapy involving a team of professionals, and a treatment plan designed to care for the whole person medically, psychologically, socially, and spiritually detoxification the process of removing toxic substances or qualities war on drugs an initiative undertaken by the United States with the assistance of participating countries, which is intended to "combat" the psychoactive substance deemed harmful prohibition the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, esp. in the US between 1920 and 1933 sentencing reform act of 1984 US federal law requiring mandatory prison terms for first-time offenders designer drugs a term used to describe psychoactive drugs which are created to get around existing drug laws by modifying their molecule structures to varying degrees