Drugs & the Nervous System
What is True?
It's the difference between pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
What is the way drugs run through the body and the way drugs impact the body?
What is True?
Enacted in 1875, it was perhaps the earliest drug law in the United States
What is the San Francisco Ordinance?
It's the official journal of the International Association of Addictions and Offender Counselors (IAAOC).
What is the Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling?
These are large protein molecules on the surface of a neuron that may be described as "locks." When they are unlocked by neurotransmitters, the neuron fires.
What are receptor sites (receptors)?
Drugs are primarily metabolized in this organ.
What is the liver?
This is the amount of time generally needed to develop and approve a new drug, according to the FDA?
What is 9-13 years?
On an APA reference page reference for our textbook, it's the year, city and state, and publisher.
What are 2019; Boston, MA; Cengage?
It's the national helpline number for individuals seeking information or referral for treatment of substance use disorders.
What is 1-800-662-HELP (4357)?
This "sea horse" of the brain is involved in memory formation.
What is the hippocampus?
True or False: Smoking is a relatively slow way of getting a drug into the blood.
What is False?
The theory that the CNS adapts to the presence of drugs, resulting in tolerance.
What is Cell Adaptation Hypothesis or Homeostasis Hypothesis?
It's the amount at which a given percentage of individuals show a particular effect of a drug.
What is Effective Dose?
It is the number provided by the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy for seeking referrals for treatment in the state of KY.
What is 1-833-8KY-HELP (1-833-859-4357)?
Naloxone can be used to treat opioid overdose due to it being this kind of substance.
What is an antagonist?
The relationship between drug dose and drug effect size can be represented by this.
What is a dose-effect curve?
While many laypersons and professionals adhere to this hypothesis of a common structure for all people with substance use disorders, there is little evidence to support it.
What is Addictive Personality?
It's the emotional state of craving a drug either for its positive effect or to avoid negative effects associated with its abuse.
What is Psychological Dependence?
This is the 2004 KY legislation providing for involuntary treatment of substance use disorders.
What is Casey's Law?
Alcohol is considered a depressant because it slows activity in the CNS. It does this, in part, by being an agonist to receptors of this neurotransmitter.
What is GABA?
These are the five biomarkers for drug testing.
What are urine, blood, sweat, saliva, and hair samples.
In the United States, it's the blood alcohol level at which you would be considered legally intoxicated.
What is 0.08%
This is a method of learning in which punishment and reinforcement shape behavior.
What is Operant Learning?
In the state of Kentucky, it is the minimum education required to become a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC).
What is a bachelor's degree?