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

Studies of self-administration of drugs in animals indicate that there is little or no inclination for animals to self-administer __________.

Needle exchange programs have been effective in reducing __________.

Alcohol-in-combination ED visits are described as __________.

A dose-response curve is generally shaped as a(n)__________.

In the 1990s,a decline in crack abuse was followed by __________.

According to the text,drugs that are unauthorized copies of prescription medications are known as __________.

When the price of street heroin goes up,property crime related to heroin abuse __________.

Year to year,there is a clear cut correlation of budget allocations used for drug regulation and the availability of illicit drugs.

A dash of quinine is sometimes added to street "heroin" in order to __________.

An increase in one's general inclination toward antisocial behavior is characteristic of __________.

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?

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

Multiple substance use is another name for polydrug use.

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

is possible that,through tolerance,individuals may have _________ after a period of regular administrations of a drug.

The opposite concept in relationship to harm reduction is

Behavioral or conditioned tolerance can be considered to be an important contributor to which drug-taking phenomenon?

Which of the following is NOT a program associated with the harm reduction approach toward drug abuse?

The concept of physical dependence originates from observations of heroin abusers.

According to the DSM-IV-TR definitions,we must determine __________.