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

The Pure Food and Drug Act of __________.

Withdrawal symptoms are the approximately the same for every psychoactive drug.

Assume that an initial dose of 100 mg will produce a particular drug effect.After repeated administrations,a dose of ________ produces an equivalent response.Which alternative would be consistent with the greatest degree of tolerance?

Drug abusers continue to use drugs due to __________.

An active public policy toward drug regulation and control __________.

The Jungle,a novel by Upton Sinclair,__________.

When taken during pregnancy,which substance produces fetal effects similar to the effects of cocaine,and shows newborn effects including growth retardation,lethargy,increased difficulty to arouse and,once aroused,increased autonomic reactivity? .

According to the DSM-IV-TR,diagnosing drug abuse and drug dependence is based on __________.

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

Analogy: The ED-response curve is to the LD-response curve as __________.

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

Cocaine has been used as a local anesthetic in the United States.

Which criterion is not used for a DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of substance dependence?

The ratio of the LD50 over the ED50 is called the __________.

In the DAWN reports,cocaine,heroin,and alcohol-in-combination cases are almost always lethal.

Heroin is an example of a Schedule I drug.

In the DSM-IV-TR,the American Psychiatric Association uses the term __________.

According to the text,the controversial part of the "drug problem" in the United States concerns __________.

The placental barrier protects a fetus from toxic substances in the mother.

Tolerance is maximized when the user always takes the drug in the same setting.