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Only Cram is Textbook Specific. Accompanys: The Third Canadian Edition includes behavioural, pharmacological, historical, social, legal, and clinical perspectives, providing students with a deeper understanding of the individual problems and social conflicts related to drug use. When using a substance makes normal activities such as driving result in harmful accidents, this is called behavioral tolerance.
Acute drug effects are those that are dangerous. Which is an example of chronic physiological toxicity? The Drug Abuse Warning Network is a system of free public-service announcements. According to recent DAWN data, which of these substances is near the top of both the emergency room visits and drug-related deaths lists?
What is a Drug Recognition Expert? A physician trained to recognize a variety of medications A police officer trained to recognize drug-related behavioral impairments A teacher trained to recognize the scent of burning marijuana None of the above.
Which drug is responsible for the most drug-related deaths in the DAWN data set? GHB prescription opioids marijuana methamphetamine.
Clear measures of the toxicity of individual drugs. Data regarding problems associated with alcohol-in-combination. General information about trends in drug-related deaths. According to the text, which of these factors led to this decrease? When repeated exposure to the same dose of a drug results in a lesser effect, this is called acute toxicity.
The occurrence of a withdrawal syndrome is evidence of A. The drugs with which people are most likely to develop psychological behavioral dependence are generally also found to have A. As views of substance dependence have changed based on scientific research, the real driving force behind repeated excessive drug use is now believed to be A.
LSD marijuana alcohol crack cocaine. Brain scan studies with drug users can show which people have developed dependence and which have not. Those who are diagnosed with a personality disorder, such as antisocial personality disorder, have an increased likelihood of also having a substance use disorder.
In determining whether using a drug causes people to become criminals, it is important to remember that A. Which of the following drugs has been clearly linked to crimes and violence? In an annual study done by the U. Justice Department, people arrested for various crimes are given urine tests to detect the presence of drugs. About how many arrests are made in the U. Rank the following drugs from highest to lowest according to the number of mentions in the DAWN emergency department dataset.
Cocaine, heroin, prescription opioids, antidepressants B. Cocaine, prescription opioids, heroin, antidepressants C. Alcohol-in-combination, cocaine, heroin, prescription opioids D. Alcohol-in-combination, prescription opioids, heroin, cocaine. True False.
One important factor that led Congress to adopt the first laws regulating what we now call controlled substances was the association of drug use with crime.
Chronic drug effects refer to those that are due to prolonged exposure to the drug. The DAWN system tells us exactly how many deaths are caused by a specific drug each year.
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