Exam 2: Drug-Taking Behaviour: Personal and Social Issues

Which effect is typically associated with a mother's use of drugs after the eighth month of pregnancy?

Continuing drug-taking behaviour in order to avoid withdrawal is one indication of physical dependence.

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

Physical dependence requires the presence of __________.

According to the text, behavioural tolerance is also referred to as __________.

Drug-related ED visits refer to occurrences resulting from __________.

The high price of illicit drugs on the street contributes to the incidence of economically compulsive violence.

DAWN statistics show that many emergencies involve drugs being taken in combination with alcohol.

Define behavioural tolerance and explain how this phenomenon might account for a drug-related overdose fatality, even though the dose might have fallen short of the lethal range.

In general, during repeated drug administrations, the strongest response will occur __________.

The current legislation that controls the possession, production, selling, or importation of drugs is the Narcotic Control Act.

A drug that produces an on-edge manner and social paranoia is __________.

According to recent DAWN statistics, there has been a greater number of drug-related ED visits for prescription of OTC medications than of illicit drugs alone. Narcotic analgesics are on the rise.

Which of the following would be included as a drug-related ED visit?

A laissez-faire policy regarding drugs would involve __________.

Each effect produced by a particular drug will have its own dose-response curves.

If one of the effects of heroin is constipation, then withdrawal symptoms after chronic heroin abuse would include __________.