Final 4

Question 1

Drug Abuse by the American Psychiatric Assoc. (APA) involves

Answer 1

Recurrent drug use resulting in:

• Failure to fulfill responsibilities
• Poses a physical hazard
• Assoc. w/legal problems
• Social/interpersonal problems

Question 2

Symptoms of Drug Dependence

Answer 2

1. Develops tolerance to substance
2. Experiences withdrawals
3. Takes substance in large amounts or over a longer period
4. Expresses a want to cut down on
5. spends a lot of time getting & using substance
6. Gives up important things
7. Continues to use while seeing problems

Question 3

Most likely to abuse drugs

Answer 3

• Males
• Being young
• Frequent exposure to drugs
• Disinterested in school
• Risk-taking personality
• Frequent borrowing of money
• sudden change in friends & activities
• Changes in sleeping/eating habits
• Rebellious & emotional distance

Question 4

Ethyl Alcohol

Answer 4

Psychoactive ingredient in alcoholic beverages

• when consumed, its absorbed into bloodstream from the stomach & S.Intestine
• Main site of alcohol metabolism is the liver

Question 5

Drinking & Driving

Answer 5

• Legal Limit for BAC =0.08%
• 2007: about 32% of more than 41,000 crash fatalities involved drivers over the legal limit
• Life expectancy is 15 yrs shorter

Question 6

Cirrhosis

Answer 6

Disease in which liver is severely damaged by alcohol, other toxins, or infection

Question 7

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)

Answer 7

Characteristic group of birth defects caused by excessive alcohol consumption by the mother

Question 8

DT (Delirium Tremens)

Answer 8

Confusion & vivid, usually unpleasant, hallucination

Question 9

Binge Drinking

Answer 9

Periodically drinking alcohol to the point of severe intoxication

• 4 drinks in a row for men or 3 in a row for women w/in 2 hrs
• 1,700 deaths

Question 10

Tobacco Use

Answer 10

U.S. Surgeon General: Smoking is the leading preventable cause of illness & death
-440,000 die prematurely from smoking-related

Question 11

Nicotine

Answer 11

Poisonous, addictive substance, found in tobacco & responsible for many of the effects of tobacco

Question 12

Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)

Answer 12

Smoke that enters the atmosphere from the burning end of a cigarette, cigar, or pipe as well as the smoke that is exhaled by smokers
–Lung cancer

Question 13

Smoking & Pregnancy

Answer 13

• Doubles chance of miscarriage
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
• low birth weight
• Developmental delay, short attention span