Chapter 1 Terms

Question 1

Addiction

Answer 1

In reference to drugs, overwhelming involvement with using a drug, getting an adequate supply of it, and having a strong tendency to resume use of it after stopping for a period

Question 2

Craving

Answer 2

A term that has been variously defined in reference to drug use; typically a strong or intense desire to use a drug

Question 3

Drug

Answer 3

Broadly defined as any substance with the potential to treat or cure disease, or enhance physical or mental welfare; any chemical agent that alter the biochemical physiological processes of tissues or organisms; psychoactive drugs, for which there is nonmedical use in addition to any medical use.

Question 4

Drug abuse

Answer 4

any use of drugs that causes physical, psychological, legal, or social harm to the individual user or to others affected by the drug user’s behavior

Question 5

Drug dosage

Answer 5

Measure of quantity of drug consumed

Question 6

Drug effects

Answer 6

The action of a drug on the body. Drug effects are measured in different ways

Question 7

Grain

Answer 7

As a measure, a unit of weight equal to 0.0648

Question 8

Over-the-counter drugs

Answer 8

Drugs that can be obtained legally without a medical prescription

Question 9

Pharmacology

Answer 9

The scientific study of drugs concerned with how drugs act on biological systems and how the body responds to the drug.

Question 10

Placebo

Answer 10

In pharmacology, a chemically inactive substance.

Question 11

Polydrug use

Answer 11

A person’s regular use of more than one drug.

Question 12

Prevalence

Answer 12

The general occurrence of an event, usually expressed in terms of percentage of some population. Another common statistic in survey studies is incidence, or the number of first-time occurrences of an event during some time period.

Question 13

Psychoactive

Answer 13

Pertaining to effects on mood, thinking, and behavior

Question 14

Psychological dependence

Answer 14

The emotional state of craving a drug either for its positive effect or to avoid negative effects associated with its abuse.

Question 15

Psychological set

Answer 15

An individual’s knowledge, attitudes, expectations, and other thoughts about an object or event, such as a drug

Question 16

Psychology

Answer 16

The scientific study of behaviour and mental processes

Question 17

Psychopharmacology

Answer 17

The subarea of pharmacology that concerns the effect of drugs on behaviour.

Question 18

Route of drug administration

Answer 18

The way that drugs enter the body

Question 19

Syndrome

Answer 19

In medicine, a number of symptoms that occur together and characterized a specific illness or disease.

Question 20

Tolerance

Answer 20

Generally, increased amounts of a drug needed to achieve intoxication, or a diminished effect with continues use of the same amount of a drug.

Question 21

Withdrawal

Answer 21

A definable illness that occurs with a cessation of decrease in use of a drug.