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

Fetal effects of methamphetamine are unknown but likely to be similar to the effects of cocaine-reducing normal fetal blood flow.

A strong tendency for an animal to self-administer a drug that ordinarily would NOT produce physical withdrawal symptoms yields evidence in favour of __________.

Behavioural tolerance is based on Pavlovian conditioning.

In contrast to outlaw motorcycle gangs, the largest proportion of street gangs involved in drug sales are comprised of individuals between ___________ years of age.

Drug tolerance is to setting as behavioural tolerance is to repetition.

The toxic dose is a measure that is commonly calculated in __________.

The LD-response curve for a particular drug will always be positioned ________ with respect to the ED-response curve.

Injecting heroin followed by snorting heroin is an example of polydrug use.

The median time interval for those who are HIV infected to show symptoms of AIDS is usually approximately __________.

The Controlled Drugs and Substances Act was enacted in _______.

Violence resulting directly from the physiological effects of an injected drug is referred to as systemic violence.

Assume that an initial dose of 100 mg will produce a particular drug effect. After tolerance, which dose level would most likely produce an equivalent response?

Someone cannot be both physically and psychologically dependent on a drug.

According to DAWN statistics, it is far more common for drug-related deaths to be a result of monodrug rather than a result of polydrug use.

Economically compulsive violence is commonly associated with which psychoactive drug?

If a drug is dangerous, poisonous, or in some way interferes with a person's normal functioning, that drug is said to be __________.

In an experiment discussed in the text, laboratory animals would choose cocaine over food even if the animal was starving to death.

As a result of the Narcotic Control Act of 1961, __________.

Economically compulsive violence stems from __________.

Illegal drugs cause the largest number of deaths per year.