SOC Chapter 1, 2 and 3:
The batches of marijuana that are cultivated to achieve maximum psychedelic effect will typically contain at least _________percent of THC (trans-delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol).
10%
The 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), which appeared in 2020, reported that _________percent of the population age 12 and older used marijuana at least once during the past month.
11.5
Researchers estimate that illicit drug use in the United States, as measured by use in the past month, peaks at which of the following age brackets?
18-25
According to surveys, the use of LSD among American high school students peaked in the
1990s
_________involves the use of battery-powered devices to heat a liquid or plant material that releases chemicals in an inhalable aerosol.
vaping
In the context of drug use, which of the following statements is true of the 1970s era?
It was the period in which the recreational use of illicit drugs was most widespread.
Identify the drug that is taken extremely sporadically, that is, has the lowest "loyalty" rate.
LSD
The illicit drug of choice during the 1960s was _________.
LSD
In the United States, which of the following drugs is recognized and legitimated as medicine in 33 states, plus the District of Columbia, but not in the other 17 states?
Marijuana
Which of the following drugs generates the greatest immediate sensual appeal?
cocaine
Which of the following drugs generates the most compulsive pattern of continued, abusive use in laboratory animals?
cocaine
Which of the following drugs ranks at the top for causing dependence?
cocaine
During Prohibition (1920â€"1933), alcohol consumption in the United States
decreased.
The author's position on drug use and drug abuse is that allillicit drug use is drug abuse.
drug abuse is drug use
In this book, we are mainly interested in drug-taking
for the purpose of getting high
In all probability, the psychoactivity of drugs was discovered by humans when they engaged in religious ceremonies.
foraged for food during the Paleolithic era.
Sedative/hypnotics are also called _________.
general depressants
It is extremely difficult, if not virtually impossible, to die of an overdose of marijuana because it has zero toxicity in human beings.
its effective dose/lethal dose ratio is enormous.
Surveys indicate that
legal drug use (alcohol and the nicotine in tobacco) is higher than illegal drug use.
Not all drugs are addicting in the classic sense of the term. Which one of the following substances is not classically addicting?
marijuana
Recent increases in overall drug use in the United States have taken place mainly in the consumption of which of the following drugs?
marijuana
Surveys on the over-all prevalence rates of major drugs in ages 12 and above in 2019 indicate that _________is the illicit drug that attracts the largest number of users.
marijuana
The illicit drug of choice during the 1980s was
marijuana
The most commonly used illicit substance in the United States is
marijuana
The illicit drug of choice during the 1960s (the "psychedelic" era) was
marijuana.
Journalists have been known to exaggerate the magnitude of shifts from one decade to another, claiming that a particular drug is the "drug of choice" during each period. In 2013, New York Magazine disclosed that _________ was Wall Street's "drug of choice."
modafinil
Researchers have compared the use of heroin and cocaine among secondary school students in the United States and concluded that
more cocaine is used than heroin.
What happens after heroin enters the body? It breaks down into _________.
morphine
Withdrawal from heroin can be alleviated by the administration of _________, because both are narcotics.
morphine
Which of the following routes of administration is the most efficient and effective in delivering a drug to the brain?
smoking
Which drug type speeds up signals passing through the central nervous system (CNS)?
stimulants
Journalists have been known to exaggerate the magnitude of shifts from one decade to another, claiming that a particular drug is the "drug of choice" during each period. In 2012, the New York Post reported that _________, a sedative, an anti-anxiety agent, had become the addicts' "drug of choice."
Xanax
Current alcohol consumption in the United States is at
a fairly low point compared with many other periods of history.
Which of the following segments of the population in the United States is most likely to use illicit drugs?
ages 18â€"25
Taking a barbiturate drug can alleviate withdrawal from _________, because both are sedatives.
alcohol
The vast majority of all instances of the consumption of psychoactive substances involves the intake of _________.
alcohol
Drug "effects"
are nonspecific and variable.
Which drug combination produces the most clear-cut synergistic effect?
barbiturate and alcohol
"Drugs, per se, are not good or bad." These are the words of _____ from their classic textbook, Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior, that are as true and relevant today as 50 years ago.
Carl Hart and Charles Ksir
Which of the following is the first of the many antipsychotics that was administered by psychiatrists to mental patients in the 1950s?
Thorazine
We may divide the history of drug use worldwide into the natural era, the transformative era, and the synthetic era. Which of the following was first used during the natural era?
opium
Journalists have been known to exaggerate the magnitude of shifts from one decade to another, claiming that a particular drug is the "drug of choice" during each period. In 2008, Newsweek reported that _________were teenagers' "drug of choice."
prescription drugs
The definition of the term "drug" that is central to this book is based on a substance's medical utility.
psychoactivity
Currently, the percentage of young adults (aged 18â€"25) who have drunk at least one alcoholic beverage in the month prior to the survey is
roughly half to three-quarters (50â€"75 percent).
Some drug effects take place over the long run; others are more short-term. Which of the following distinctions or dimensions is this difference relevant for?
the acute-chronic distinction
According to records, researchers estimate that alcohol consumption was greatest in which of the following historical eras?
the early 1800s
The number and percentage of people in the population who use a given drug during a designated period is termed _______.
the prevalence rate
