UDA Chapter 2a Quiz

When drugs are taken orally, the effects are delayed for approximately how long?

20 to 30 minutes

Passive transport occurs when water-soluble drugs such as cocaine cross the blood-brain barrier by hitching a ride on molecules that cross the blood-brain barrier.

False

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

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

True

Regardless of which method a person uses to consume a psychoactive drug, the drug reaches the brain through the bloodstream

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

dopamine

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

There are several routes of administering drugs, and some reach the brain faster than others. Which of the following sequences correctly lists the routes of administration from fastest to slowest for getting drugs to the brain

inhaling (smoke), injecting (intravenous), mucous membrane absorption (nasal passage), oral ingestion

Which of the following statements is true regarding addiction, including compulsive behaviors such as gambling?

Addiction is a disease analogous to an diabetes.