soc 2023 unit 3 assessment Flashcards
the relationship between a driver’s BAC (blood-alcohol concentration) and getting into an accident that kills someone is
positive
the relationship between alcohol consumption and being the victim of criminal, violent behavior is
positive
Which of the following has the highest concentration of “absolute” alcohol?
distilled spirits (such as gin, vodka, tequila, or scotch)
“Apparent” alcohol consumption is based on
alcohol sales during a given period of time
Statistically speaking, on an episode-by-episode basis, the setting in which alcohol-impairment injury is most likely to take place is
a vehicle on the street or highway
the relationship between alcohol consumption and engaging in risky, deviant behavior is
positive
In the United States, over the long run, the number of alcohol-related automobile fatalities
has decreased
the tobacco plant is indigenous to which of the following continents or regions
the Western Hemisphere
the correlation between drinking alcohol and illicit drug use is
0 percent “absolute” alcohol.
b.25 percent “absolute” alcohol.
c.50 percent “absolute” alcohol.
d.75 percent “absolute” alcohol.
*e.100 percent “absolute” alcohol.
The relationship between the sale of alcohol in a given location and the likelihood that residents living in that location will be hospitalized for assault is
positive
From interviews of arrestees, sociologists have discovered that among criminals born after 1970, the percentage who said that they had used crack cocaine has
decreased
In the 1990s, several media sources reported that a new heroin epidemic had gripped the United States. Toward the end of the first decade of the 2000s, that epidemic had
subsided
A study compared controlled opiate users with narcotic addicts and found that the former differed from the latter in
the frequency of use – that is, less than once a day versus more than once a day
which of the following is not a narcotic, opiate, or opioid drug?
methedrine
Which of the following painkillers or analgesics are not classified as narcotics?
Ibuprofen
Compared with most of the other drugs, the ED-LD ratio for narcotics is
narrow
Which of the following effects is not an effect of the relevant dose or doses of narcotic drugs?
All of these are effects of the relevant dose or doses of narcotic drugs
On a dose-by-dose, user-by-user basis, _________ remains by far the most dangerous among the circle of the six or eight recreationally used narcotics.
heroin
Soporific refers to the capacity to
induce drowsiness and sleepiness
The heroin that is derived from poppies grown in Afghanistan is shipped mainly to _____
Europe, China, Russia, and Africa
The drug and drug types that are discussed in this chapter are included together because
they tend to be used recreationally by more-or-less middle class persons
the era during which marijuana’s psychoactive effects were discovered and when it began to be used is
natural era
Who was Shen Nung?
A mythological figure who was neither an actual Chinese emperor nor a writer of a pharmaceutical treatise that included marijuana as a curative herb
No authors of texts on drug use have included marijuana in which categories
Some writers have included marijuana as belonging in each of these categories
The principal psychoactive chemical in marijuana is
THC
The swiftest, most efficient, and most effective route of administration of marijuana is
smoking it
The social characeristic that correlates most strongly with the use of marijuana is
age
Which drugs discussed in this text are in the category of hallucinogenic/psychedelic drugs?
Psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, DMT & DET
What are the common effects of hallucinogenic or psychedelic drugs?
psychotic episodes:
common effects are:
- the perception of a multilevel reality
-seeing the world as more fluid than it is
- eidetic imagery
-synesthesia
Which explanations for the “progression” of users from the use of marijuana to the use of more dangerous drugs focuses on properties inherent in the drug that cause this phenomenon?
the pharmacological school
Between the 1990s and the year 2000, do did the use of club drugs change?
increased
After 2000, how did the rate of use of club drugs change?
decreased
Psychopharmacologists classify ketamine as a___
dissociative anesthetic
Psychopharmacologists classify Ecstasy (MDMA) in terms of its effects as a_____
none of the above
How is the use of club drugs changing?
none of the above; the use of club drugs is not changing
the evidence indicating that the human use of MDMA(ecstasy) damages:
any organ of the body is inconclusive
the first LSD “trip” took place in
the 1940s
