Exam 5: Opioids: Opium, Heroin, and Opioid Pain Medications

"Black tar" is the name for __________.

After the Civil War in the United States, opioid dependence in general was so widespread among returning veterans that the condition was often called the "soldier's disease."

The chief advantage of LAAM over methadone is that __________.

The Opium War was fought between ______ and ______.

Which was the first Western country to make opiates illegal?

Opioid antagonists block the effects of morphine.

A disease or disorder for which a narcotic drug is quite helpful as a treatment is __________.

Opium during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was brought into China chiefly by __________.

Impurities in some forms of synthetic heroin have produced cases of __________.

The impact of the Opium Act was to encourage opioid abusers to __________.

From a long-term perspective, compared to other drugs, heroin is relatively nontoxic.

Which of the following is NOT a class of opioids?

China invented a novel form of opium use: opium smoking.

What is criss-crossing?

One of the reasons for the potentially acute lethal effects in taking heroin is __________.

Prior to the eighteenth century, the Chinese used opium almost exclusively as a treatment for __________.

According to the text, many methadone maintenance clients become dependent on __________.

Methadone blocks the abuser's craving to get high.

If the dose level is low, then tolerance effects will be more dramatic than if the dose level is high.

Describe the principal acute effects of heroin on the mind and the body.