Drugs and Society Final Exam
Course Introduction
Drugs and Society examines the complex relationship between drugs, individuals, and social structures. The course explores the historical, cultural, and political contexts that shape drug use, regulation, and policy worldwide. Key topics include the social construction of drug norms, patterns of drug consumption, the impact of legal and illegal drugs on communities, and the consequences of drug prohibition. Students will analyze case studies and current events to understand the implications of drug laws on public health, criminal justice, and social inequality, fostering a critical perspective on contemporary issues surrounding drugs in society.
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Drugs Across the Spectrum 7th Edition by Raymond Goldberg
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Chapter 1: Drugs in Perspective
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Q1) Define and give examples of drug use, misuse, and abuse.
Answer: -Drug misuse:unintentional or inappropriate use of prescribed or over-the-counter drugs (ex., using cough syrup to get high).
-Drug Abuse:the intentional and inappropriate use of a drug resulting in physical, emotional, financial, social or intellectual consequences.(ex., regularly using cough syrup to get high and committing crimes in order to procure cough syrup)
Q2) Freud was an early proponent of the medical use of cocaine.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Peyote contains
A) LSD
B) ergot
C) psilocybin
D) mescaline
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Drugs in Contemporary Society
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Q1) Preventing drugs from entering the United States or reducing the amount of drugs grown in the country is
A) hampered by a lack of technology
B) a matter of demand, not supply
C) largely a military effort
D) best done by local police
Answer: B
Q2) The drug involved with the most violent incidents is
A) heroin
B) amphetamines
C) alcohol
D) LSD
Answer: C
Q3) __________ is a synthetic derivative of morphine.
A) MDMA
B) Ecstasy
C) Meperidine
D) MDA
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Motivations for Drug Use
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Q1) Cigarette advertisements were prohibited from television in
A) 1965
B) 1967
C) 1969
D) 1971
Answer: D
Q2) An obvious reason for drug use is pleasure.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Even though withdrawal symptoms may be psychological, they are quite real to the person experiencing them.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Caffeine can improve endurance by masking symptoms of fatigue.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Drugs and the Law
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Q1) Cocaine is an example of a schedule _______ drug.
A) I
B) II
C) III
D) IV
Q2) A drug with no medical use would be a schedule ___ drug.
A) I
B) II
C) III
D) IV
Q3) Prohibition was the major purpose of the Harrison Act.
A)True
B)False
Q4) High drug prices due to drug laws may generate criminal activity.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What appears to be the common theme in drug laws that have been passed since 1914?
Q6) Discuss the key elements to the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970.
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Chapter 5: The Pharmacology and Physiology of Drug Use
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Q1) Drugs that produce profound and intense effects and act quickly are more likely to be abused.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When a user feels the desired effects from lesser amounts of the drug, it is referred to as what type of tolerance?
A) Ppharmacological
B) Bbehavioral
C) Rreverse
D) cCross
Q3) When tolerance to one drug results in tolerance to another drug, it is referred to as what type of tolerance?
A) Ppharmacological
B) Bbehavioral
C) Rreverse
D) Ccross
Q4) Neurons containing acetylcholine are termed cholinergic.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Distinguish between threshold dose, effective dose, and lethal dose.
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Chapter 6: Alcohol
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Q1) Alcohol accounts for what percentage of deaths in the U.S.each year?
A) 10%
B) 20%
C) 30%
D) 40%
Q2) By definition, problem drinkers drink daily.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is believed to be the oldest drug known to humans?
A) Alcohol
B) LSD
C) Opium
D) Morphine
Q4) The amount of alcohol in distilled spirits is generally indicated by the A) distillation procedures
B) fermentation procedures
C) proof
D) stamp on the bottom of the bottle or can
Q5) Identify and discuss key historical events related to alcohol.
Q6) Discuss the issues inherent in trying to define alcoholism.
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Chapter 7: Tobacco
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Q1) Smoking rates in industrialized countries
A) are increasing
B) are decreasing
C) have not changed
D) are not known
Q2) Of all smokers, approximately what percentage began as teenagers?
A) 50%
B) 60%
C) 70%
D) 80%
Q3) Tobacco industry documents dating back to the _____ describe the addictive potential of nicotine.
A) 1940s
B) 1950s
C) 1960s
D) 1970s
Q4) Buerger's disease is due in part to poor circulation that can be aggravated by cigarette smoking.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Narcotics
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Q1) What is OxyContin and why is it abused?
Q2) The reason that heroin is more powerful than morphine is because heroin is A) lipid-soluble
B) fat-insoluble
C) protein-bound
D) lipid-insoluble
Q3) Demerol is
A) more potent than morphine
B) less potent than morphine
C) the same in potency as morphine
D) not comparable to morphine because it is a stimulant
Q4) Today's rate of people addicted to opium is twice that of the late 1800s.
A)True
B)False
Q5) People who die quickly from an overdose of heroin are likely to die from A) toxicity
B) anaphylactic shock
C) a lethal dose
D) reverse tolerance
Q6) Discuss the medical benefits of narcotics.
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Chapter 9: Sedative Hypnotic Drugs
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Q1) Nitrous oxide is used as an
A) anti-anxiety drug
B) anesthetic
C) a major tranquilizer
D) over-the-counter sedative
Q2) The psychoactive agent in glue is
A) adhesives
B) toluene
C) benzene
D) epinephrine
Q3) To say a drug exerts a soporific effect is to say that the drug will induce
A) hallucinations
B) delusions
C) sleep
D) sedation
Q4) Inhalants do not have sedative-hypnotic properties.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What are the medical uses of benzodiazepines?
Q6) How has the use of barbiturate revolutionized medicine?
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Chapter 10: Psychotherapeutic Drugs
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Q1) The model which focuses on symptoms, diagnosis, and cure is referred to as
A) the psychological model
B) the medical model
C) the sociocultural model
D) the psychiatric model
Q2) MAOIs are no longer prescribed in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q3) MAOI's work better with patients whose depression
A) is hereditary
B) is chronic and has occurred over a two year period
C) becomes less acute as the day progresses
D) becomes more acute as the day progresses
Q4) Lithium is typically administered by injection.
A)True
B)False
Q5) MAOIs are only effective with depressed patients who have high MAO activity.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Under what conditions should the mentally ill be mainstreamed into society?
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Chapter 11: Stimulants: Cocaine, Amphetamines, and Caffeine
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Q1) Who referred to cocaine as the "third scourge of humanity?"
A) Freud
B) Szasz
C) Reagan
D) Bush
Q2) A speedball is a mixture of cocaine and
A) heroin
B) amphetamines
C) crack
D) alcohol
Q3) A combination of two stimulants is referred to as a speedball.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Cocaine can cause the heart to beat irregularly.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Methcathinone is a popular caffeine drink.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss the physical effects of Ritalin and Adderall. Page 13
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Chapter 12: Marijuana
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Q1) There is direct physical evidence that reverse tolerance occurs with marijuana use.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What percentage range is there of THC in the marijuana smoked typically in the United States?
A) < 1%
B) 2-5%
C) 7-9%
D) > 10%
Q3) Which form of cannabis is mainly found in Northern Europe and parts of Asia?
A) Ruderalis
B) Sativa
C) Indica
D) Sinsemilla
Q4) Why is marijuana use associated with the 1960s?
Q5) Worldwide, marijuana is the most commonly used drug.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Identify and discuss the short- and long-term effects of marijuana.
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Chapter 13: Hallucinogen
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Q1) LSD became popular because of which man?
A) Hoffman
B) Freud
C) Leary
D) Schultes
Q2) LSD was discovered by
A) Leary
B) Hoffman
C) Alpert
D) Schultes
Q3) LSD principally operates on the neurotransmitter serotonin.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Psilocybin is chemically similar to
A) LSD
B) amphetamines
C) caffeine
D) PCP
Q5) Should Timothy Leary have been allowed to continue to experiment with LSD in the college setting under controlled circumstances? Why or why not?
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Chapter 14: Over the Counter Drugs
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Q1) Naproxen sodium is most similar to what drug?
A) Acetaminophen
B) Aspirin
C) Ibuprofen
D) Phenacetin
Q2) Robo-tripping is the inappropriate use of
A) dextromethorphan
B) hydrocitric acid
C) thebaine
D) codeine
Q3) The difference between many OTC and prescription drugs is the amount of the active ingredient.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Alli works by blocking absorption of fat.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What psychoactive substances should people be able to self-prescribe? For example, should small concentrations of benzodiazepines be available OTC?
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Chapter 15: Substance Abuse Treatment
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Q1) Disulfiram is better known as
A) Antabuse
B) naltrexone
C) Valium
D) Librium
Q2) Which of the following are benefits of drug treatment?
A) Less expensive than incarceration
B) Illicit drug use is reduced
C) Criminal activity declines
D) All of the above
Q3) Acamprosate is generally administered
A) once a day
B) twice a day
C) several times a day
D) every other day
Q4) Naltrexone may be most helpful after
A) one year of sobriety
B) identification of a sound support group
C) incarceration
D) detoxification
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Chapter 16: Drug Prevention and Education
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Q1) Drug-taking behavior learned through modeling and reinforcement is the premise of A) skills training
B) DARE
C) LST
D) Project ALERT
Q2) Poor school performance and low expectation for school are poor predictors of drug use.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Interdiction remains a popular prevention strategy
A)True
B)False
Q4) Children who develop resilience to drugs form a strong bond with at least one person during their first year of life.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Teachers should not convey a judgmental attitude if they desire to be effective.
A)True
B)False
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