Psychopharmacology Final Study Guide
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The effects of psychedelic drugs are consistent and predictable.
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An important lesson from all primary prevention programs is that to be successful a program must be continual. One-year attempts at inoculating students against alcohol/drug use have not been effective enough.
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Formulation, the imaginary sensation that hundreds of tiny bugs (e.g., coke bugs, meth bugs, and snow bugs) are crawling under one's skin, is caused by the visual hallucinogenic.
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One of the most long-lasting effects of alcohol abuse is an inability to experience normal sexual relationships.
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One reason why abusing pressurized inhalants is dangerous because inhaling them directly form their containers can freeze lung tissue.
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Problems handling money in a responsible manner is one of the hallmarks of almost any addict.
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The comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1990 was implemented in response to crack epidemic of the 1990's.
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The most rapid route of administering a drug to reach the brain is intravenously.
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The pharmacologic effects of inhalants are long lasting.
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The phrase "supply reduction" refers to the prevention programs that prevent people from wanting to use illicit drugs.
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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.
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Women have a higher percentage of body water than do most men of comparable size, so there is more water to dilute the alcohol they drink.
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Acute tolerance (tachyphylaxis) and adaption to tobacco begins almost instantly with the first puff of a cigarette.
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The potency of drugs today is due to technological advances in refining, synthesizing, and manufacturing methods.
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The reasons why people engage in compulsive behaviors are different from the reasons why they use psychoactive drugs.
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The ruling classes, governments, industry, and criminal organizations have controlled the trade of psychoactive drugs.
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Opiates limit the release of and block receptors for substance P, which is the name of the neurotransmitter that transmits pain messages from nerve cell to nerve cell.
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An individual who is under the influence of heroin will have dilated pupils.
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Blackouts are caused by an alcohol-induced electrochemical disruption of the brain.
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Unlike opiates, steroids do not have distinct withdrawal symptoms.
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When smoking cessation is part of a drug treatment program, the chances of recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction greatly increases.
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False-negative results, not false positives, constitute the majority of urine-testing errors.
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From our nation's early beginnings, the United States strictly regulated alcohol, opium, morphine, cannabis and other psychoactive medications.
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Heavy prolonged use of stimulants can induce a schizophrenic-like psychosis.
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Human brain chemistry can be affected by psychoactive drugs, behavorial addictions, and mental illness, to induce an altered state of conciousness.
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In recent decades, policy decisions regarding alcohol have been made based on the political climate rather than on the effects of drugs on the individual and society.
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Marijuana is not addictive and does not induce compulsive use.
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Needing a dose of a drug just to feel "normal" is a sign of tolerance.
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Of all the stimulants, the strongest physical and mental dependency develops from nicotine in tobacco.
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Psilocybin mushrooms cause less disassociation, panic, and psychotic reactions compared with LSD.
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Regardless of which method a person uses to consume a psychoactive drug, the drug reaches the brain through the bloodstream.
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Regular survey data collection and analysis of alcohol and other drug use provide a benchmark to measure the effectiveness of prevention efforts and policies.
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Research has shown that supply reduction (drug seizures, interruption of people involved with the drug trade) is a more effective strategy than demand reduction ( drug abuse treatment and prevention).
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Stimulant drugs including cocaine and methamphetamine force the release of dopamine. This surge of dopamine causes paranoia and hyper-reactivity.
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Substituting a "less harmful" drug for a "more harmful" drug is a form of harm reduction.
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Susceptibility to blackouts and brow outs is also a marker for susceptibility to alcoholism.
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When the body speeds up he metabolism and the breakdown of a drug, it is known as despotic all tolerance.
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Synesthesia is defined as the crossing of senses, such as when visual input becomes sound.
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The central nervous system is composed of the spinal cord and he brain.
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The majority of the U.S. National drug control budget is allocated to demand reduction .
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The use of an addictive substance (such as alcohol and other drugs) at an early age changes vulnerable brain functions and increase a person's likelihood of developing an addiction.
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There is a universally accepted treatment, which has been proven effective for everyone who has an addiction.
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There is increasing evidence that the use of some psychedelic drugs under medically monitored conditions may effectively treat some addictions.
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Tolerance to the mental effects of drugs always develops at the same rate as tolerance to the drugs physical effects. (Different rates)
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Tolerance to the mental effects of most psychedelics tends to develop rapidly.
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Treating people with addictions costs substantially less than incarcerating them for the same length of time.
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Treatment for addiction to opiates requires a physiological and psychological process.
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A person's level of emotional and physical stress can increase the ability of psychoactive drugs to cross the blood-brain barrier.
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Acetylcholine is the most crucial neurotransmitter involved in drug use and abuse. (Dopamine)
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Acute withdrawal from heroin is not life-threatening as acute withdrawal from alcohol or sedative-hypnotics.
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Alcohol or other drugs are involved in 70% of teen suicides.
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Carriers of a DRD2A1 allele gene have an excess of dopamine receptors.
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Children who grow up in a home with a drug-using or alcohol-abusing family member take on distinctive roles that effect their personalities.
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Coerced (legally mandated) treatment is not as effective as voluntary treatment.
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Embalming fluid (formaldehyde), used to preserve dead bodies for funerals and burial, can also be used to create a PCP-like high.
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Endogenous craving associated with initial abstinence is a type of drug hunger brought about by the depletion of brain neurotransmitter's during use.
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Inhalant effects resemble those of alcohol and sedative intoxication.
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Internet addiction and compulsive shopping affect many of the same areas of the brain as are influenced by psychoactive drugs.
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Major alcohol withdrawal symptoms can develop within as short as 7 consecutive weeks of heavy drinking.
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Overdose deaths involving opioids most commonly include their combined use with other legal or illicit substances like alcohol, benzodiazepines, or antidepressants.
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The effects of amphetamines last longer than the effects of cocaine because amphetamines can block enzymes from metabolizing neurotransmitter's, which creates a continued overstimulation.
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The inability to resist an impulse that is originally pleasurable but ends becoming harmful is called an impulse-control disorder.
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There is no such thing as a psychological dependence.
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Tolerance is not a sign of physical or psychological dependence.
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Tolerance of stimulant drugs is caused by the brain's creation of more dopamine and more dopamine receptors, which increases the drug's rewarding effects.
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Tolerance to one type of depressant, such as alcohol, can lead to the development of cross-tolerance for another depressant, such as benzodiazepines.
