Substance Abuse Chapter 7 Study Questions

The CNS depressants include various prescription drugs referred to as...

Which of these is NOT one of the early sedative-hypnotics used in medicine? -chloral hydrate -paraldehyde -butyrate -bromide salts

What has kept paraldehyde from being widely used?

How are barbiturates usually classified?

Among the barbiturates, when prescribing a sleeping pill (hypnotic), physicians would usually choose a...

Two drugs that were introduced as being safer than barbiturates, but in the long run proved to be not much safer, were...

The major advantage of the benzodiazepines over the barbiturates seems to be the...

Librium (chlordiazepoxide) and Valium (diazepam) were the first widely sold...

The "date-rape" drug Rohypnol (flunitrazepam)...

When benzodiazepines bind to their receptor site, they...

Zolpidem (Ambien) is...

The four most widely sold benzodiazepines are all longer-acting drugs sold primarily as...

Sedative-hypnotic agents bind to which receptors in the brain?

Animal self-administration experiments and studies of drug choice among humans indicate that...

Withdrawal from long-term use of sedative-hypnotic drugs is characterized by...

One of the most dangerous acute effects of taking depressants in combination with alcohol is...

Which of the following drugs could theoretically be used to treat barbiturate withdrawal?

One of the oldest gaseous anesthetics, popularly known as "laughing gas" is...

What household product contains nitrous oxide?

The modern era of abuse of volatile solvents by young people can be traced to a 1959 newspaper report of ...

Inhalant use has traditionally been more common among...

GHB (gamma hydroxybutyric acid)...

The usual recreational dose of GHB when taken alone is about...

Anecdotally, _____ (or poppers) are used to enhance sexual pleasure.

T or F: Paraldehyde is a CNS depressant that is currently available in several over-the-counter medications.

T or F: When barbiturates were the most popular sedative-hypnotics, low doses of the long-acting types were used as sleeping pills.

T or F: Benzodiazepines replaced barbiturates primarily because they were believed to be safer.

T or F: Ambien (zolpidem) is a popular benzodiazepine used to treat anxiety.

T or F: Sodium pentathol is a long-acting barbiturate used to treat insomnia.

T or F: Among the sedative-hypnotic drugs, short-acting barbiturates seem to be the most likely to lead to drug dependence.

T or F: Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is a schedule 1 controlled substance.

T or F: The majority of "huffers" (users of inhalants) are above age.

T or F: Volatile solvents that act as CNS depressants are found in a wide variety of houshold products.