Chapter 1: Drug use: An Overview

Question 1

What are the 4 principles of Psychoactive Drugs

Answer 1

1. Drugs per se, are not good or bad
2. Every drug has multiple effects
3. Both the size and the quality of a drug’s effect depend on the amount the individual has taken
4. The effect of any psychoactive drug depends on the individual’s history and expectations

Question 2

Any substance, natural, or artificial, other than food, that by its chemical nature alters structure or function in a living organism

Answer 2

Drug

Question 3

A drug that specifically affects thoughts, emotions, or behaviour

Answer 3

Psychoactive Drug

Question 4

A drug that is unlawful to possess or use

Answer 4

Illicit drug

Question 5

Initiative of Canada’s Drug Strategy to use public education programs to significantly reduce the damage associated with alcohol and other drugs

Answer 5

Harm Reduction

Question 6

Use of drugs or chemicals in greater amounts than prescribed by a doctor, or for purposes other than, those intended by the manufacturer

Answer 6

Drug Misuse

Question 7

Substance use in a manner, an amount, or in situations such that it causes social, occupational, psychological or physical problems

Answer 7

Drug Abuse

Question 8

A state in which an individual uses a drug so frequently or consistently that it would be difficult for the person to stop

Answer 8

Drug dependence

Question 9

A chronic relapsing condition characterized by compulsive drug seeking and abuse and by long-lasting chemical changes in the brain

Answer 9

Addiction

Question 10

A state in which drug is used frequently and the user cannot get along without the drug

Answer 10

Dependence

Question 11

Larger doses are needed to achieve the same effects

Answer 11

Tolerance

Question 12

Symptoms that appear when blood leaves the drug decreases or diminishes

Answer 12

Withdrawal

Question 13

Having effects on thoughts, emotions, or behaviour

Answer 13

Psychoactive

Question 14

Dried leaves of the Cannabis plant

Answer 14

Marijuana

Question 15

A variable that is statistically related to some other variable, such as drug use

Answer 15

Correlate

Question 16

A variable that occurs before some event, such as the initiation of drug use

Answer 16

Antecedent

Question 17

A study done over time (months or years)

Answer 17

Longitudinal Study

Question 18

One of the first drugs used by a typical drug user

Answer 18

Gateway

Question 19

A procedure in which a behavioural event is followed by a consequent event, such that the behaviour is then more likely to be repeated. The behaviour of taking a drug may be reinforced by the effect of the drug

Answer 19

Reinforcement