Unit 5 Drugs

Taking an excessive amount of a drug that leads to coma or death is called a(n)

• blackout

• hangover

• DUI

• overdose

A chemical that affects brain activity is called a(n)

• illegal drug.

• medicine.

• psychoactive drug.

• prescription drug.

Which is the most frequently abused psychoactive drug?

• cocaine

• marijuana

• heroin

• methamphetamine

Which of the following is an example of drug abuse?

• Forgetting to take cough medicine with the proper foods.

• Deliberately taking cough syrup for purposes other than treating a cough.

• Mistakenly taking more cough syrup than is recommended to treat a cough.

• Using cough syrup per label instructions to treat a cough.

A psychoactive drug that slows brain and body reactions is called a(n)

• amphetamine

• depressant

• stimulant

• hallucinogen

What is the term for the body's need for larger amounts of a drug to achieve the same effect?

• withdrawal

• tolerance

• addiction

• dependence

This occurs when two drugs interact to produce an effect that is greater than each drug

would produce alone is called

• withdrawl

• drug synergism

• dependence

• drug antigonism

Tolerance causes a drinker's body to need

• only a small amount of alcohol to cause intoxication.

• the immediate removal of alcohol from the body's systems.

• a constant amount of alcohol in the bloodstream.

• increasingly larger amounts of alcohol to achieve the original effect.

Stimulants are drugs that

• improve the function of the cardiovascular system.

• help people overcome addiction to other drugs.

• increase the activity of the nervous system.

• cause cancer in humans.

The state in which a person's mental and physical abilities are impaired by alcohol or another

substance is called

• blackout

• sobering up

• intoxication

• a hangover