Opioids
This country has the highest demand in the world for opium.
What is the United States?
Xanax and Valium are examples of this category of prescription drugs.
What are depressants?
After alcohol, the most commonly abused substance by US soldiers during the Vietnam War was this.
What is marijuana?
Five drinks within two hours OR four drinks within two hours is known as this.
What is binge drinking?
Among the an observer's many responsibilities, he or she is responsible for watching this leave the body to ensure that there is no wrongdoing.
What is the specimen?
Opiates affect these chemicals in the brain.
What are endorphins?
The harm caused by prescription drugs can be dramatically increased when combined with this common substance.
Abuse of this category of substances is more common among service members than civilians.
What is prescription drugs?
This percentage of American adults ages 18 and older have an alcohol abuse disorder.
Roughly 7% or 17 million.
This is the Army regulation governing the ASAP program.
What is AR 600-85?
This effect observed in frequent opioid abusers is characterized by a decrease in effect over time.
What is tolerance?
This well-known celebrity was otherwise known as the "King Of Pop". He died in 2009 from a combination of prescription drugs.
Who is Michael Jackson?
Exposure to this puts service members at an increased risk for substance abuse.
What is combat?
These are the standard "drink" amounts for beer, wine, distilled spirits, and malt liquor.
12 ounces (oz) of regular beer/5 oz of wine/1.5 oz of distilled spirits/8 to 9 oz of malt liquor
Back-to-back urinalysis is an example of this.
What is "smart testing?"
Created by the company Bayer in 1989, this drug became highly abused in the twentieth century especially by Vietnam veterans.
What is heroin?
The commonly abused drug Ritalin is primarily intended for people with this disease.
What is ADHD?
Other than alcohol, this type of prescription pill is the single most commonly abused substance in the military.
What are pain relievers?
This is the active ingredient in alcoholic beverages.
What is ethanol?
This is a policy allowing soldiers to self-report substance abuse issues without incurring administrative or punitive consequences.
What is the limited use policy?
This recent synthetic opioid, originally developed as a powerful anesthetic for surgery, is up to 100 times more powerful than morphine.
What is fentanyl?
When people addicted to prescription drugs go to many different doctors to collect prescriptions to feed their addiction, it is known as this.
What is doctor shopping?
During World War I, the British army gave soldiers a medicine containing this substance, which was said to cure combat fatigue and sharpen focus.
What is cocaine?
This is the US Army's legal limit for Blood Alcohol Content constituting "impairment."
What is .05 grams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood?
Names of the units assigned UPLs
Who are SGT Taylor, SGT Johnson, SGT Harrison