Exam 2: Drug-Taking Behavior: the Personal and Social Concerns

________ is defined as the possibility that the short-term effects of a particular drug will trigger a toxic reaction.

The ingestion of increasingly large doses of a toxic drug will produce __________.

Harry J.Anslinger was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)during the 1930s.

Polydrug use refers to the use of a drug at different dosage levels from administration to administration.

Expenditures to carry out the war on drugs are up by more than 1,400 percent since 1981.

The higher the margin of safety ratio,the more toxic the drug.

In recent years,DAWN statistics indicate __________.

If a drug is ED50,it means the drug will become toxic if 50 mg of the drug is taken.

In most cases,the dosage levels taken by drug abusers would be lethal if taken by a first-time user.

A Schedule V drug __________.

The DAWN reports mainly focus on emergency department cases caused by __________.

In studies of psychological dependence,a catheter refers to __________.

The Marijuana Act of 1937 __________.

Drug-related ED visits __________.

The DSM-IV-TR of the American Psychiatric Association defines two fundamental conditions related to drug-taking behavior: __________.

Tolerance,withdrawal symptoms,and unintentional overuse are three of the seven criteria for the previous DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of __________.

Picture yourself as an emergency room physician at a metropolitan hospital that participates in the DAWN reporting system.What questions would you ask an incoming patient who is displaying symptoms that might be drug-related? What circumstances might prevent you from making an accurate record of the role drugs may have played in these symptoms?

The placental barrier is particularly effective in blocking the crossing of __________.

As a result of the Harrison Act of 1914,__________.

Conditioning effects have been demonstrated with which of the following drugs?