T/F (1)

True

According to researchers, a person who smokes cigarettes is 22 times more likely to use cocaine than a nonsmoker.

False

Addiction to and withdrawal from benzodiazepines is not generally severe.

False

Attempts to solve the problems of drug abuse, addiction, and crime focus on demand reduction, supply reduction, and reduction of drug potency.

True

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

Benzodiazepine sedative-hypnotics generally have a higher margin of overdose safety than other drugs in this depressant category.

True

Compulsive behaviors affect many of the same areas of the brain that are influenced by psychoactive drugs

False

Drinking experience, not heredity, affects a persons ability to tolerate a given amount of alcohol.

False

Drug use in the gay community is unrelated to prejudice, homophobia, and fear of coming out and of being oneself, so prevention and treatment do not need to address these issues.

True

Formication, the imaginary sensation that hundreds of tiny bugs (e.g., coke bugs, meth bugs, and snow bugs) are crawling under one's skin.

True

In recent decades, policy decisions regarding drugs and alcohol have been made based on the political climate rather than on the effects of drugs on the individual and society.

False

Inhalants are categorized as stimulants or uppers

True

Major alcohol withdrawal symptoms can develop within as short time as 7 consecutive weeks of heavy drinking.

True

Methamphetamine use is associated with increased rates of HIV infection in some communities.

False

Per standard dose, the effects of cocaine last longer than the effects of methamphetamine.

True

There is increasing evidence that the use of some psychedelic drugs under medically monitored conditions may effectively treat some addictions.

False

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

True

When a person who has developed tolerance to caffeine subsequently withdraws from the caffeine, it results in physical pain, extreme fatigue, and depression.

True

Alcohol interacts with more types of receptors, neurotransmitters, and genes than do marijuana and cocaine.

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.

True

Death from depressants (e.g. opioids) overdose usually involves severe respiratory depression.

False

Dendritic spine memory bumps grow in the synapse when the nerve is stimulated by sensory input.

False

Marijuana is not addictive and does not induce compulsive use.

False

Opiate addiction was first documented about 100 years ago.

True

Originally called freebase crack cocaine first appeared at the beginning of this century.

False

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

The number of people in the United States who overdose on heroin is greater than the number who overdose on any other type of opioid, including hydrocodone, oxycodone, and methadone.

True

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

True

Blackouts are caused by an alcohol-induced electrochemical disruption of the brain.

False

From our nations early beginnings, the United States strictly regulated alcohol, opium, morphine, cannabis and other psychoactive medications.

False

Heroin and morphine are considered long-acting opioids.

True

Human brain chemistry can be affected by psychoactive drugs, behavioral addictions, and mental illness, to induce an altered state of consciousness.

False

Most sedative-hypnotics are from natural sources.

False

Needing a dose of a drug just to feel "normal" is a sign of tolerance

True

Of all the stimulants, the strongest physical and mental dependency develops from nicotine in tobacco.

True

Problems handling money in a responsible manner is one of the hallmarks of almost any addict.

False

Psychoactive drugs promote homeostatic conditions in the central nervous system.

False

Recovery from sexual addiction requires lifelong abstinence from sex.

True

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

True

Research shows that boys under age 18 with ADHD who are treated with stimulants (Adderall and Ritalin) are much less likely to abuse drugs and alcohol when they get older.

True

Stimulant drugs including cocaine and methamphetamine force the release of dopamine. This surge of dopamine causes paranoia and hyper-reactivity.

True

Susceptibility to blackouts and brownouts is also a marker for susceptibility to alcoholism.

False

The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1990 was implemented in response to crack epidemic of the 1990s.

True

The DEA has determined that the psychedelics DMT, psilocybin, mescaline (peyote), and harmaline (ayahuasca) do not cause physical dependence.

True

The central nervous system is composed of the spinal cord and the brain.

True

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

True

The high occurrence of ADHD among adolescents in treatment for substance abuse disorders is in part attributed to their use of drugs to self-medicate ADHD symptoms.

False

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