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DSST Substance Abuse
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1. Drug _____ is to use a drug in a situation - manner or amount that it causes social - psychological - physical or occupational problems.

2. The Soviets were the first to use ________ to build up their athletes.

3. When nonsmokers inhale cigarette smoke from their ___________ it is called passive smoking.

4. REM sleep is the sleep phase associated with _______.

5. Most of the integration of information - learning and ______ occur in the central nervous system.

6. Legal _______ drugs - ranked by amount of money spent each year: Alcohol ($104 billion) Tobacco ($51.9 billion) Coffee - Tea and Cocoa ($5.7 billion)

7. The parasympathetic branch of the autonomic system stimulates digestion - slows the heart - and has other effects associated with a _______ physiological state.

8. Tobacco is responsible for ___ thousand US deaths each year.

9. The amount of alcohol that can be metabolized by the liver is about 0.25 to 0.30 _______ per hour.

10. The opioid antagonist __________ selectively blocks opioid effects - preventing the user from experiencing the reinforcing effects of the abused drug (for example - heroin).

11. The two categories of psychoactive drugs are ______ (legal) and illicit (illegal).

12. Ethylene glycol alcohol is poisonous and is a primary ingredient of __________.

13. The active ingredients for half of the prescriptions filled consist of only ____ drugs.

14. Approximately _% of alcoholics - who experience alcohol withdrawal symptoms - must be treated in a hospital or in an alcohol rehabilitation facility that specializes in detoxification.

15. The _____ ____ of heroin is 15-30 minutes.

16. The symptoms for withdrawal from any _________________ is similar to symptoms for alcohol withdrawal.

17. Poisonous alcohols include methyl - ethylene glycol and _________.

18. Heart rate and blood pressure are two of the many functions regulated by the _________ nervous system.

19. Timothy Leary was a well known psychologist and proponent for the use of ___ in the 1960s.

20. Some examples of stimulants include cocaine - ______________ - and caffeine.

21. Medical science has used opium as a pain reliever and also to treat _________ and dehydration caused by dysentery.

22. Smoking is involved in about ___ percent of deaths from cardiovascular disease.

23. Flashbacks are the recurrence of certain aspects of the drug experience weeks or months after an individual has taken ___.

24. The unemployed are _____ likely to use illicit drugs than those who are employed.

25. The names of barbiturates all end in __.

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