Substance Abuse

Question 1

What is the difference between drug use and drug misuse?

Answer 1

Drug use is using drugs for medical purposes, while misuse is the use of non-medical drugs, or too much of a medical drug.

Question 2

What are physiological changes? Psychological changes?

Answer 2

Physiological changes are changes in body function, while psychological changes are changes in brain function.

Question 3

What are the meanings of recidivism, tolerance, physical dependence, habituation, and withdrawal?

Answer 3

Recidivism: When a druggist or smoker, after quitting, becomes re-addicted. Tolerance: The need for more of the drug to receive the same effect. Physical Dependence: Having to depend on the drug in life. Withdrawal: When one stops taking a drug. Habituation: Loss of a drug that people depend on.

Question 4

What are five reasons why people may use drugs?

Answer 4

Curiosity, Rebellion, Peer Influence, Peer Pressure, Think It Will Make Problems Go Away, Escape From Problems, To Look Cool, Their Family Does It.

Question 5

What body system is most damaged by smoking.

Answer 5

Respiratory.

Question 6

What are two respiratory diseases and one non-respiratory diseases that are caused by smoking?

Answer 6

Lung Cancer, Bronchitis, Heart Diseases, Emphysema.

Question 7

How does the marijuana of the 21st century differ from that of the 1960’s?

Answer 7

Marijuana today is made from multiple places, and have varying levels of THC.

Question 8

How does marijuana interfere with driving ability?

Answer 8

Distorts time and space within the mind, interferes with good judgement making, and abilities to think quickly and make good decisions.

Question 9

What is amotivational syndrome?

Answer 9

A syndrome after drugs in which there is a lack of motivation and energy.

Question 10

Which three skills were affected by marijuana? In Marijuana Alert, what was learned from the study of monkeys?

Answer 10

Intelligence, Athleticism, and Hand-Eye Coordination. From the monkey experiment, it was learned that the monkeys introduced to marijuana lost over 40% of their pregnancies, but their offspring had no physical abnormalities.

Question 11

Is alcohol a depressant or a stimulant? What system does it affect?

Answer 11

Depressant. Nervous.

Question 12

What are inhibitions? What part of the brain controls them, as well as judgement, tact, thinking, and involuntary motor skills? How does alcohol affect them? Why do people think that alcohol is a stimulant?

Answer 12

Inhibitions are actions that people should not do. The cerebrum. Alcohol stops the cerebrum from keeping inhibitions, and causes people to act the ways they shouldn’t. Because people think that it makes the drinkers freer.

Question 13

Why is chugging dangerous? (What does the brain stem control?)

Answer 13

Because drinking too much alcohol can lead to the brain stem not working correctly, and therefore the body may not be able to make vital actions.

Question 14

What are three reasons why men and women are different when “holding their alcohol”?

Answer 14

The amount of fat in the body, the size of the drinker, and the amount of alcohol-eating enzymes in the stomach.

Question 15

How much alcohol is in the bodes of men and women who both weigh 100 lbs.? Does the BAC% increase equally for males and females?

Answer 15

0.08% for males, 0.09% for females. No.

Question 16

How do coffee and cold showers help with sobering up? What does help with sobering up?

Answer 16

They don’t. Waiting, and not drinking.

Question 17

What is the difference between passing out and a blackout?

Answer 17

Passing out is when one loses consciousness, while blacking out is when a drunk is still conscious, but does not remember anything that happens.

Question 18

What does water-soluble and fat-soluble mean?

Answer 18

Water-soluble means that the substance is stored in water, while fat-soluble means that it is stored in fat.

Question 19

Which stays in the body longer: Alcohol or marijuana? Which is fat-soluble? Which is water soluble?

Answer 19

Marijuana. Marijuana. Alcohol.

Question 20

What are the effects of depressants on the body? Stimulants?

Answer 20

Depressants slow down the nervous system, while stimulants speed up the nervous system.

Question 21

How are inhalants used? How are they more dangerous than other drugs?

Answer 21

Inhalants are breathed in through the nose or mouth. It can damage the mouth, nose, liver, and brain.

Question 22

What types of drugs does ecstasy have the effects of? What are three ways in causes death?

Answer 22

An stimulant and a hallucinogen. Heart attack, stoke, dehydration.

Question 23

What is GHB also known as? Why does it have this nickname?

Answer 23

The “date-rape drug”. Men may give it to their dates, so that they can’t control their actions, and are easier to rape.

Question 24

Is methamphetamine a stimulant or a depressant? Is their a high risk or low risk for addiction? Recidivism?

Answer 24

Stimulant. High rate for both addiction and recidivism.

Question 25

What are three reasons why it is bad for people to use medical drugs that are not prescribed for them?

Answer 25

May not work, Might be a better drug, Could be very dangerous, Very addictive.

Question 26

What are coping skills? Why is the recreational use of drugs more dangerous for adolescents than for adults? Why do psychologists think that it is true that drunk people at a younger age will be harder to treat than people at an older age?

Answer 26

Coping skills are skills that are used to deal with problems. In adolescents, people haven’t had a fully developed mind, and have not developed coping skills. The younger has not yet had coping skills, and brain had not been fully developed, while the older has coping skills and a fully developed mind.