soc 2023 unit 3 assessment

Question 1

the relationship between a driver’s BAC (blood-alcohol concentration) and getting into an accident that kills someone is

Answer 1

positive

Question 2

the relationship between alcohol consumption and being the victim of criminal, violent behavior is

Answer 2

positive

Question 3

Which of the following has the highest concentration of “absolute” alcohol?

Answer 3

distilled spirits (such as gin, vodka, tequila, or scotch)

Question 4

“Apparent” alcohol consumption is based on

Answer 4

alcohol sales during a given period of time

Question 5

Statistically speaking, on an episode-by-episode basis, the setting in which alcohol-impairment injury is most likely to take place is

Answer 5

a vehicle on the street or highway

Question 6

the relationship between alcohol consumption and engaging in risky, deviant behavior is

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positive

Question 7

In the United States, over the long run, the number of alcohol-related automobile fatalities

Answer 7

has decreased

Question 8

the tobacco plant is indigenous to which of the following continents or regions

Answer 8

the Western Hemisphere

Question 9

the correlation between drinking alcohol and illicit drug use is

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0 percent “absolute” alcohol.
b.25 percent “absolute” alcohol.
c.50 percent “absolute” alcohol.
d.75 percent “absolute” alcohol.
*e.100 percent “absolute” alcohol.

Question 10

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

Answer 10

positive

Question 11

From interviews of arrestees, sociologists have discovered that among criminals born after 1970, the percentage who said that they had used crack cocaine has

Answer 11

decreased

Question 12

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

Answer 12

subsided

Question 13

A study compared controlled opiate users with narcotic addicts and found that the former differed from the latter in

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the frequency of use – that is, less than once a day versus more than once a day

Question 14

which of the following is not a narcotic, opiate, or opioid drug?

Answer 14

methedrine

Question 15

Which of the following painkillers or analgesics are not classified as narcotics?

Answer 15

Ibuprofen

Question 16

Compared with most of the other drugs, the ED-LD ratio for narcotics is

Answer 16

narrow

Question 17

Which of the following effects is not an effect of the relevant dose or doses of narcotic drugs?

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All of these are effects of the relevant dose or doses of narcotic drugs

Question 18

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.

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heroin

Question 19

Soporific refers to the capacity to

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induce drowsiness and sleepiness

Question 20

The heroin that is derived from poppies grown in Afghanistan is shipped mainly to _____

Answer 20

Europe, China, Russia, and Africa

Question 21

The drug and drug types that are discussed in this chapter are included together because

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they tend to be used recreationally by more-or-less middle class persons

Question 22

the era during which marijuana’s psychoactive effects were discovered and when it began to be used is

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natural era

Question 23

Who was Shen Nung?

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A mythological figure who was neither an actual Chinese emperor nor a writer of a pharmaceutical treatise that included marijuana as a curative herb

Question 24

No authors of texts on drug use have included marijuana in which categories

Answer 24

Some writers have included marijuana as belonging in each of these categories

Question 25

The principal psychoactive chemical in marijuana is

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THC

Question 26

The swiftest, most efficient, and most effective route of administration of marijuana is

Answer 26

smoking it

Question 27

The social characeristic that correlates most strongly with the use of marijuana is

Answer 27

age

Question 28

Which drugs discussed in this text are in the category of hallucinogenic/psychedelic drugs?

Answer 28

Psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, DMT & DET

Question 29

What are the common effects of hallucinogenic or psychedelic drugs?

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psychotic episodes:
common effects are:
- the perception of a multilevel reality
-seeing the world as more fluid than it is
- eidetic imagery
-synesthesia

Question 30

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?

Answer 30

the pharmacological school

Question 31

Between the 1990s and the year 2000, do did the use of club drugs change?

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increased

Question 32

After 2000, how did the rate of use of club drugs change?

Answer 32

decreased

Question 33

Psychopharmacologists classify ketamine as a___

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dissociative anesthetic

Question 34

Psychopharmacologists classify Ecstasy (MDMA) in terms of its effects as a_____

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none of the above

Question 35

How is the use of club drugs changing?

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none of the above; the use of club drugs is not changing

Question 36

the evidence indicating that the human use of MDMA(ecstasy) damages:

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any organ of the body is inconclusive

Question 37

the first LSD “trip” took place in

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the 1940s