Study Guide chapter 4
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
