Chap. 1 test

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From our nation's early beginnings the United States strictly regulated alcohol opium morphine cannabis and other psychoactive medications

False

Research has shown that Supply reduction drug seizures of people involved with drug trade more effective strategies than demand reduction drug abuse treatment and prevention

False

The comprehensive drug abuse prevention and Control Act of 1990 was implemented in response to crack epidemic of the 1990s

False

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

True

The physical mental and emotional effect a person experiences from taking psychiatric drugs are caused by the modification of mimicking of neutral transmitters function

True

Acetylcholine is the most critical neutral transmitters involved in drug use and abuse

False

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

False

There's no such thing as psychological dependency

False

Tolerance to the mental effects of drugs always develop at the same rate as tolerance to the drugs physical effect

False

Acute tolerance ( tachyphylaxis )to Tobacco begins almost instantly with the first puff of a cigarette

True

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

True

In recent decades policy decisions regarding drugs and alcohol have been made based on the political climate rather than on the effect of drugs on the individual and Society

True

Internet addiction compulsive shopping affect many of the same areas of the brain as are influenced by psychoactive drugs

True

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

True

The central nervous system is composed of the spinal cord and the Brain

True

The ruling classes governments industrial and criminal organizations have controlled the trade of psychiatric drugs

True

What the density 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 drug it is known as dispositional tolerance

True


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