Study Guide chapter 4

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Which of the following correctly list the three major classes depressants?

Alcohol, opiates, sedative hypnotics

Which of the following statements best describes the effects that the presents have on the body due to its affects on the central nervous system?

Depressants decrease rate of breathing and heart rate

Alcohol is a major stimulant

False

An individual who is under the influence of heroin will have dilated peoples

False

Benzodiazepines are used by sexual predators to increase sexual desires in their victims

False

Depressants affect the central nervous system by elevating to use his blood pressure, pulse, heart rate, and respiration

False

Erwin and morphine are considered long acting opioids

False

Most sedative hypnotic's are from natural sources

False

Opioid addiction was first documented about 100 years ago

False

Opioids, particularly heroin, affect only a select few of the bodies organs, mainly the heart, liver, and kidneys

False

Opioids, such as hydrocodone (Vicodin) usually suppressed nausea and vomiting

False

Sedatives are medications used to induce sleep.

False

The majority of her one available the United States comes from Afghanistan

False

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

False

The primary illegitimate source of obtaining prescription drugs, such as Oxsee cotton, bacon, and Xanax, is over the Internet

False

The stop switch in the brain, which tells your mind and body that it is had enough and functions to turn off the brains go switch, is located in the brainstem

False

Z-hypnotics like Senada, Ambien, and a Imovane, are short acting, but they are thought to have a higher risk of addiction then most benzodiazepines

False

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

False- this is a sign of tissue dependency

How long can with drawl symptoms following detoxification and abstinence from long-acting opioid such as methadone persist?

For 14 days or more after detoxification

Which of the following is true about the purity of heroin at the retail level?

It varies from 10% to 70%

Of 1033 new drugs approved by the FDA between 1989 and 2000, the percentage showed no significant clinical improvement over older and cheaper drugs already in use?

More than 50%

Which of the following drugs is an opioid antagonist that may be used to prevent an opioid overdose?

Naloxone

The synthetic affect of drugs refers to

The combination of two or more depressant drugs, which magnifies there a fax on the CNS

Which of the following statements about opioids is true?

There is almost no limit to the level of opioid tolerance a human can develop.

Acute withdrawal from heroin is not as life-threatening as a key with drawl from alcohol or Sedative hypnotics

True

Addiction to and with drawl from benzodiazepine is not generally severe

True

Benzodiazepine sedative hypnotic generally have a higher margin of overdose safety then other drugs and this is the present category

True

Death from depressants overdose usually involves severe respiratory depression

True

Drug tolerance two benzodiazepines developed in part due to the increased efficiency of a liver and processing or metabolizing a drug that is used regularly

True

Heroin was the first developed to be a non-addictive medical alternative to morphine

True

Historically, most drug laws were made for a political rather than medical considerations

True

Human beings have a naturally occurring androgynous opioids, which caused many of the same affects as those caused by taking opioid drugs

True

Most heroin abuse or's begin by abusing prescription opioids

True

Opiates limit the release of and black receptors for substance P, which is the name of the neurotransmitter that transmits pain messages from nerves cell to nerve cell

True

Overdose deaths involving opioids most commonly include their come by and use with other legal or illicit substances like alcohol, benzodiazepines, or antidepressants

True

The major receptor sites for opioids are the mu, delta, kappa and nociceptin

True

Tolerance to one type of depressant, such as alcohol, can lead to the development of cross tolerance for another present, such as benzodiazepines

True

Using a needle continuously to inject drugs in the same blood vessel traumatizes them, causing them to become unusable for injection.

True

One of the symptoms of chronic opiate use is itchy skin

True-skin dries out and itching increases

Why is it dangerous to combine an opioid with a downer like alcohol barbiturates or benzodiazepines?

because the combination of depressants increases the potential for respiratory depression, overdose, and death

Of the following semi-synthetic/synthetic opiate drugs, which is not a correct match with the trade pharmaceutical name listed after it?

diacetylmorphine | Suboxone


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