Exam 6: Stimulants

How does cocaine affect the brain?

Which is the MOST critical ingredient in methylphenidate?

A 2011 survey by the Canadian Alcohol and Drug Use Monitoring Survey (CADUMS) found this group had the highest percentage of illicit drug use?

Colombia remained the world's largest cultivator of coca bush followed by Mexico.

Where in Canada does the largest proportion of smuggled cocaine enter and which countries are the main providers?

During the 1950s and early 1960s, amphetamines were prescribed for depression?

Acute cocaine poisoning leads to all of the following EXCEPT ______.

In North America, little concern was given to cocaine until the end of the 1940s.

The earliest medical use for amphetamine was as a substitute for ephedrine in treating asthma.

What has Alertec (modafinil) been recently approved to treat?

What is the most common way cocaine is used recreationally?

What is cocaine use during pregnancy associated with?

During which of the following procedures in 1884, did Karl Koller establish cocaine's value as a local anesthetic?

How are amphetamines defined in Canada's Controlled Drugs and Substances Act?

According to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime World Drug Report 2009, which country is the world's largest cultivator of the coca bush?

Explain the different preparations of cocaine and how they are used.

Whose coca wine made him rich and famous?

Cocaine is still legally available for use in nasal, laryngeal, and esophageal surgery.

Crack cocaine is a very stable form of the drug also known as cocaine hydrochloride.

Karl Koller found cocaine to provide anesthesia sufficient to allow amputation surgeries to proceed without the perception of pain.