Exam 5: The Actions of Drugs

Alcohol has a low tendency, but THC has a high tendency to do what?

With increasing doses of any useful drug what is there usually an increase in the number and severity of?

Which drug is Fentanyl 50 to 100 times more potent than?

Describe lipid solubility.

A drug's potency is defined in terms of how great an effect it can produce.

For many psychoactive drugs, such as nicotine and cocaine, the fastest way to get an effect is by inhaling the drug's vapors.

Describe the double-blind procedure.

If the repeated exposure to a drug increases the activity of the CYP450 enzyme that is responsible for metabolizing that drug, then future doses of the drug will be less effective than the first doses. What is this an example of?

The idea of a safety margin for a particular drug is based on what idea?

There are many different routes by which drugs can be administered. Describe the pros and cons of the oral route versus the intravenous route.

Describe the term; Drug Half-Life.

What is the threshold on a dose-response curve?

Jarrod's doctor recommend which of the following route of administration to him quite smoking?

Drug disposition tolerance and pharmacokinetic tolerance can both be used to describe a drug's rate of metabolism or excretion.

Ritalin was the most commonly used Injection drug used among street youth, according to the Canadian Street Youth study in 2003.

According to your text how many hospitalizations occur each day due to opioid poising in Canada?

Describe the difference between a chemical name and the generic name of a drug.

Behavioural tolerance is the result of learning to compensate for the disruptive effects of a drug.

If you want to rapidly get very high concentrations of a drug to the brain, which route of administration would you probably use?

Occasionally, the repeated use of a drug leads to pharmacodynamic tolerance, which is based on which of the following?