Chapter 9 test

Question 1

Know what the five schedules of drugs are

Answer 1

Schedule 1; no medical use, high potential for abuse. Ex heroin, LSD, bath salts
Schedule 2; severely restricted medical use, high potential for abuse. Example cocaine, oxy, and methamphetamine
Schedule 3; Accepted medical use, moderate potential for abuse, moderate to low risk of dependence. Example ketamine, barbiturates, steroids
Schedule 4; Medical use, low potential for abuse and low risk of dependency. Example Xanax, sleeping pills, Valium
Schedule 5; Widely used for medical purposes, very low potential for abuse, contains limited quantities of narcotics. Examples Robitussin AC, Tylenol with codeine

Question 2

Know the four classes of drugs

Answer 2

Narcotic, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens(technically not, but also is), and anabolic steroids

Question 3

What are narcotics

Answer 3

AN addictive, sleep-inducing drug, often derived from opium, that acts as a central nervous system depressant and suppresses pain. Includes morphine and codeine

Question 4

Toxicology

Answer 4

The study of drugs, poisons toxins, and other substances that harm a person when used for medical, recreational, or criminal purposes

Question 5

How are people exposed to toxic substances?

Answer 5

Ingestion, inhalation, injection, or absorption

Question 6

Who was Socrates and importance?

Answer 6

He was one of the earliest reported victims of poisoning (hemlock, 399 BC)

Question 7

Is poisoning a common method for murder?

Answer 7

No

Question 8

Georgi Markov, how was he killed?

Answer 8

A Bulgarian defect living in London working as a news reporter. He was killed after being injected with 2mg of ricin in a modified umbrella tip that caused a heart blockage.

Question 9

Know what damaged the drinking water in West Virginia for 300000 people in 2014

Answer 9

MCHM, a chemical used to wash coal

Question 10

Acute poisoning is due to what?

Answer 10

A high dose over a short period of time which immediately produces symptoms

Question 11

What are methamphetamines,

Answer 11

Synthetic, stimulant drugs often made in small, illegal, home labs. The chemicals used to make meth often cause explosions endangering workers, neighbors, and the environment. Causes major weight loss, severe dental problems, cardiac damage, and neurological damage

Question 12

PCP

Answer 12

Also called angel dust, it’s a synthetic hallucinogenic drug that causes feelings of invulnerability and exaggerated strength, seizures, coma, and hyperthermia when overdosing.

Question 13

synthetic marijuana

Answer 13

Also called spice is a herb sprayed with synthetic THC that causes overdose symptoms similar to marijuana, but variable because of variable levels of active ingredient.

Question 14

Depressants/downers

Answer 14

A substance that decreases or inhibits the nervous system, reducing alertness. Includes barbiturates and benzodiazepines that relieve anxiety and produce sleep while slowing body function like heart and breathing rate. They are highly addictive and abrupt withdrawal can cause death.

Question 15

Controlled substances are?

Answer 15

A drug or other chemical compound whose manufacture, distribution, possession, and use are regulated by the legal system. Includes stimulants, narcotics, depressants, and anabolic steroids and drugs that exist on schedules 2 through 5.

Question 16

Since the early 1990s have arrests for drug abuse have they increased or decreased?

Answer 16

Increased

Question 17

What are hallucinogens

Answer 17

A drug that changes a person’s perceptions and thinking during intoxication. Includes LSD, Marijuana, PCP, and MDMA

Question 18

Know how to do the math if given a % of alcohol to find the proof

Answer 18

Double the percent to find the proof

Question 19

Techniques used for presumptive testing

Answer 19

Colorimetric testing, microscopic examination of plant matter, microcrystalline test, gas chromatography–mass spectrometry.

Question 20

What do narcotics cause?

Answer 20

Narcotics suppresses pain. Can cause difficulty breathing, low blood pressure, weakness, dizziness, confusion, loss of consciousness, coma, clammy skin, and permanently contractor pupils

Question 21

Stimulants cause?

Answer 21

Stimulants are a substance that affects the nervous system by increasing alertness, attention, and energy, as well as elevating blood pressure, heart rate, and respiration and causes bleeding in the brain.

Question 22

Anabolic steroids cause?

Answer 22

Can cause acne, body hair, baldness, increased aggression, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, impaired fertility in males, blood clotting, kidney and liver cancers, and heart attacks.

Question 23

Depressants cause?

Answer 23

Depressants are a substance that inhibits the nervous system, reducing alertness. It produces sleep by relieving anxiety and slows bodily functions like breathing and heart rate

Question 24

A survey in 2013 found how much is spent annually in the workplace for drug abuse.

Answer 24

$600 billion

Question 25

Sodium pentathol is?

Answer 25

Acts as a depressant and slows down the central nervous system, death can seem like it was done naturally

Question 26

Potassium Chloride?

Answer 26

A type of lethal injection that affects the heart’s ability to send electrical signals, may appear like a natural death

Question 27

Know what ricin is

Answer 27

A waste product of the manufacture of castor oil from castor beans. T is lethal in quantities as small as 500 micrograms (size of a pinhead) can be ingested, inhaled, or injected, and causes death in 6-8 hours

Question 28

Know the effects of carbon monoxide gas

Answer 28

It interferes with the body’s ability to absorb oxygen. Causes headaches, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, chest pain, disorientation, seizures, shortness of breath, and loss of consciousness

Question 29

Depressant examples

Answer 29

Barbiturates and benzodiazepines and Xanax

Question 30

Toxicity

Answer 30

The degree to which a substance is poisonous or can cause illness