Exam 2: Drug Use: Yesterday and Today

The designer drug methcathinone is a synthetic form of _____________.

According to the Controlled Substances Act,the maximum penalty for a first offense for possession is greater for a Schedule I drug than for a Schedule V drug.

The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 outlawed the use of marijuana.

The Second Opium War ended in the Treaty of __________.

Heroin has always been used primarily by lower socioeconomic groups.

The designer drug Rohypnol is commonly known as ___________.

Valium is a Schedule IV drug.

In ancient times,various plants were used primarily within religious or __________ contexts.

Drugs with little or no abuse or dependence potential are not classified in the 1970 Controlled Substances Act.

Marijuana was used as an all-purpose medicine in the 1800s.

The purity of heroin sold on the street today is __________ it was in the 1980s.

Soldiers who used heroin in Vietnam were usually able to give up their habit upon return to the U.S.

What did physicians in the mid-1800s refer to as "God's own medicine"?

__________ is a hallucinogenic,historically used by the Mazatec Indians in Mexico,that has seen a recent problematic rise in use in the U.S.

The 1960s was the era of __________.

One of the most effective prevention approaches to the use of methamphetamines has been to highlight the cosmetic effects on appearance of methamphetamine use.

_____________ is a combustive process in which yeasts interact with the sugars in plants to produce an enzyme that converts the sugar into alcohol.

What was the "soldiers' disease" in the Civil War?

Although illicit drugs have often been used for medicinal purposes,it is very rare for drugs that are developed for medical reasons to be used in nonmedicinal ways.

Cocaine is a ___________ drug.