Exam 2: Drug Use As a Social Problem

What is the Drug Abuse Warning Network?

Needle exchange programs began in Canada in 1989; however the programs were found to have little impact on the rate of HIV infection among intravenous drug users and were too expensive an initiative to continue.

Chronic drug effects refer to those that are due to prolonged exposure to the drug.

Which of the following describes the potential to become dependent upon a psychoactive drugs spectrum, beginning with the highest risk substance to the least likely?

Which statement describes acute drug effects?

How do Alcoholics Anonymous members (AA) often describe alcohol?

Once a substance is regulated in any way, those regulations will be broken by some.

Which term describes when the use of a substance makes normal activities such as driving result in harmful accidents?

In a recent study investigating the cost of substance abuse in Canada, it was estimated that 10% of all criminal offences were attributable to alcohol.

Most opioid-related deaths in Canada occurred in males

Which of these substances is listed as having a "very high" dependence potential?

What does the presence of withdrawal syndromes indicate?

Among jail inmates in Canada who have been convicted of property crimes, which percentage of them reported that they had committed the crime to get money for drugs?

Data from Canadian population-specific surveillance systems suggest that approximately 15% of IDUs borrow needles that have been used by someone else.

Until the twentieth century, what was the most common model regarding drug dependency, and how would you describe it?

Because some believe it plays a large role in positive reinforcement, theorists have recently focused on which of the brain's neurotransmitters?

According to the statistics provided in your textbook, alcohol causes serious dependence in ______

Who specially regulates the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems system?

According to your text, which statement describes drug regulations in Canada today?

What can brain scan studies with drug users reveal?