PSYC 4250 FIRST TEST

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"The most crucial neurotransmitter involved in behavioral addictions, drug use, and drug abuse is:"

DOPAMINE

The name of the primary evaluation document used in the United States to assess whether a person has a substance-related disorder is called the:

Diagnostic Statistical Manual

"The more rapidly a psychoactive drug reaches its central nervous system target, the less the reward and the lower the reinforcing effect."

FALSE

Acetylcholine is the most crucial neurotransmitter involved in drug use and abuse.

FALSE

Contact absorption from drug-saturated patches applied to the skin allow erratic amounts of drugs to be passively absorbed into to the body over an indefinite period of time.

FALSE

The most rapid route of administering a drug to reach the brain is intravenously.

FALSE

Tolerance to the mental effects of drugs always develops at the same rate as tolerance to the drugÕs physical effects.

False

Which statement is true regarding intravenous drug use?

Intravenous drug use is the most dangerous method because it bypasses the bodyÕs natural defenses.

"Because the blood-brain barrier is not formed until a child is one to two years of age, any psychoactive substance used by a pregnant woman can be particularly harmful to a developing fetus."

TRUE

"Compulsive behaviors (e.g., binge eating, anorexia, bulimia, compulsive gambling, sexual compulsion, and Internet addiction) affect many of the same areas of the brain that are influenced by psychoactive drugs

TRUE

"The physical, mental, and emotional effects a person experiences from taking psychoactive drugs are caused by the modification or mimicking of the neurotransmitter's function."

TRUE

"The potency of drugs today is due to technological advances in refining, synthesizing, and manufacturing methods."

TRUE

"When the body speeds up the metabolism and the breakdown of a drug, it is known as dispositional tolerance."

True

Acute tolerance (tachyphylaxis) and adaptation to tobacco begins almost instantly with the first puff of a cigarette.

True

The compulsive gamblerÕs addiction pathway in the brain becomes hijacked similar to the ways the brain becomes rewired from alcohol and other drug addictions.

True

"When the human body is continually challenged by the use of drugs that alter the body,s natural balance, a Ònew normalÓ is created, known as

allostasis

Which of the following statements is true? Humankind has always had a desire to...

alter individual states of consciousness regardless of the potential for damage

Psychoactive drug is

any substance that directly alters the normal functioning of the central nervous system

Psychoactive drugs promote homeostatic conditions in the central nervous system.

false

There is no such thing as psychological dependence

false

"Using drugs to replace, supplement, or counterbalance the effects of a personÕs drug of choice is known as:"

polydrug use

The Eighteenth Amendment (the ÒVolstead ActÓ) was implemented to...

prohibit the manufacture and the sale of any alcoholic beverage in the United States

Addictive substances affect how neurons can down-regulate their brain receptors

true

The Gin Epidemic...

was brought under control through high taxes and the strict regulation of the sale of gin

A person's level of emotional and physical stress can increase the ability of psychoactive drugs to cross the blood-brain barrier.

TRUE

In the United States, the legal drinking age varies from state to state."

TRUE

Which of the following statements is true regarding the use of alcohol and other drugs by a woman who is pregnant?

"The placenta is not an effective barrier, so if the mother uses, the baby uses."

Limiting the places where tobacco smoking is permitted has not reduced the use of tobacco in the United States or other countries where such policies have been implemented.

TRUE

Mexican cartels have replaced Colombian cartels in smuggling cocaine into the United States.

TRUE

Research has shown that supply reduction (drug seizures, interruption of people involved with the drug trade) is a more effective strategy than demand reduction (drug abuse treatment and prevention)."

TRUE


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