5.4

Question 1

a progressive decrease in a person’s responsive to drug with continued use.

Answer 1

tolerance.

Question 2

exists when a person must continue to take a drug to avoid withdrawal illness?

Answer 2

Physical dependence

Question 3

types of dependence on using drugs

Answer 3

Physical and psychological dependence.

Question 4

occurs when drug use is terminated?

Answer 4

withdrawal illness.

Question 5

exists when a person must continue to take a drug to satisfy intense mental and emotional craving for it.

Answer 5

psychological dependence.

Question 6

alters mood, perception, or
thought Increased dopamine in nucleus accumbens,
involved in the motivational/rewarding effects

Answer 6

psychoactive drug.

Question 7

an excessive dose of a drug that can seriously threaten one’s life.

Answer 7

an Overdose.

Question 8

drugs derived from opium that are capable of relieving pain.

Answer 8

narcotics.

Question 9

sleep-inducing drugs that tend to decrease central nervous system and behavioral activity

Answer 9

sedatives.

Question 10

what does narcotics carry?

Answer 10

psychological and physical dependence.

Question 11

drugs that tend to increase central nervous system and behavioral activity.

Answer 11

stimulants.

Question 12

a diverse group of drugs that have powerful effects on mental and emotional functioning, marked most prominently by distortions in sensory and perceptual experience

Answer 12

hallucinations.