Exam 8: Alcohol and Other Drugs

What are the different categories of drugs? What effects do these drugs have on people? Give an example of a drug within each category.

Which category of drug increases alertness, changing a person's mood by increasing energy?

Which term refers to efforts to stop drugs from moving across this country's borders?

Which of the following, with the exception of nicotine, is the most addictive drug available legally without a prescription?

Ritalin (methylphenidate hydrochloride) is a drug doctors prescribe to treat

Which category of drugs has a wide-ranging effect on the central nervous system, helping people to relax and, at higher doses, cause drowsiness and sleep?

Which term means using any illegal substance or to using a legal substance (such as a prescription drug) in a way that violates accepted medical practice?

What policy would remove the current criminal penalties that punish the manufacturing, sale, and personal use of drugs?

The man who founded Alcoholics Anonymous is

Describe how the conservative, liberal, radical left, and radical right/libertarian views have different understandings of what the "drug problem" is, as well as what to do about it.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and attention deficit disorder (ADD) are typically treated with which type of drug?

President Reagan advanced a conservative position defining drugs as a moral challenge and urged parents to teach their children the importance of resisting drugs, capturing this idea in the slogan

In 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Which of the following is NOT an opiate?

Which political position would lead you to claim that the government threatens civil liberties by using police power to make arrests, seize property, and monitor the lives of individuals suspected of using drugs?

Which theoretical analysis points out that the social standing of drug users is related to how severely our society punishes illegal drug use?

From which political point of view would we say that young people who are raised by committed, involved parents and guided by religious beliefs and caring teachers are likely to resist any temptation presented by drugs?

Which type of depressants dull pain?

Jorge has a beer or a glass of wine with dinner from time to time because these drinks taste good with the food and make him feel relaxed. His behavior illustrates which reason for using drugs (in this case, alcohol)?

According to the text, hallucinogens