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The _______ epidemic took place is the 1980's
a) Heroin b) Meth c) Crack d) Marijuana
c) Crack
The alcohol prohibition caused which drug to be popular in the 1920's?
a) Marijuana b) Opium c) Heroin d) LSD
a) Marijuana
The U.S. is in the midsts of a ______ overdose epidemic
a) Crack cocaine b) Alcohol c) Opioids d) Marijuana
c) Opioids
What drug replaced cocaine from Coca-Cola?
a) Caffeine b) Adderall c) Ritilin d) Focalin
a) Caffeine
Cough medicine has what type of drug in it?
Codeine
Which president announced the start of The War on Drugs?
a) Reagan b) Nixon c) Lincoln d) Obama
b) Nixon
What state became the first to legalize the possession and use of marijuana for medicinal purposes?
a) Colorado b) Washington c) California d) Nevada
c) California (1996)
The anti-drug abuse act in 1986 was passed by congress to start the _____ _____ _____ act
a) hugs not drugs b) crack is wack c) war on drugs d) save the kids
c) War on Drugs
What organized group benefited from prohibition?
a) government b) gangsters c) Mexican cartels d) people in poverty
b) Gangsters and bootleggers
Along with hallucinogens what drug became important to the hippy movement in 60s and 70s?
a) Cocaine b) Heroin c) Marijuana d) Meth
c) Marijuana
In the 1900's, what drugs (3) were used for medicinal purposes?
a) Heroin, Coke, & Meth b) Steroids, Opium, & Marijuana c) Coke, Opium, & Marijuana d) Opium, Marijuana, & Meth
c) Coke, Opium, and Marijuana
As the number of people in the U.S. jails and prisons on drug-related charges almost doubled from the late 1980's to today, use of illicit drugs has actually ______
a) Decreased b) Stayed the same c) Increased
c) Increased
What popular drug is used by athletes as an anti inflammatory?
a) Adderall b) Marijuana c) Crack Cocaine d) Steroids
b) Marijuana
MDMA is a schedule ______ drug
a) Schedule 1 b) Schedule 3 c) Schedule 4
d) Schedule 5
a) Scheduled 1 drug
Tobacco and coffee have been used around the world since the _____ century
a) 16th b) 17th c) 18th d) 19th
c) 18th century
Frasers tablets. These pills, made for people with asthma, contained ______
a) Caffeine b) Heroin c) Cocaine d) Opium
b) Heroin
What is used to determine what a drug should be scheduled?
a) How accessible the drug is and benefits from the drug
b) Drugs acceptable medicinal use and the drugs abuse or dependency potential
b) Drugs acceptable medicinal use and the drugs abuse or dependency potential
During the Korean war era the mixing of heroin with methylphenidate and injecting the combination was known as a _________
a) Flower Flipping b) A-bomb c) Banana Split
d) Speedball
d) Speedball
In 1971 as a result of the Amnesty program the pentagon reported that nearly _____ thousand (under 30 thousand) servicemen identified themselves as heroin users and sought treatment
a) 9 thousand b) 13 thousand c) 16 thousand d) 24 thousand
c) 16 thousand
What decade was LSD pronounced illegal?
a) 50's b) 60's c) 70's d) 80's
b) 60's
During the American Civil War, wounded war veterans returned home with what type of drug kit?
a) Morphine or Heroin b) Opium or Marijuana
c) Morphine or Opium d) Heroin or Marijuana
c) Morphine or Opium
Under which amendment did alcohol become illegal?
a) 14th b) 15th c) 17th d) 18th
d) 18th amendment
By the year 2000, the number of arrests related to illicit substance abuse was _____
a) 2.6 million b) 1.5 million c) 30 thousand d) 100 thousand
b) 1.5 million
According to an article published in TIME in 2009, the united states gov’t has spent over _____ fighting against drugs
a) 2.5 trillion b) 3.4 million c) 7.2 trillion d) 70 million
a) 2.5 trillion
The U.S. government has resources of _____ budgeted for education and outreach programs to stop drug use before it starts
a) 5 billion b) 3.4 trillion c) 1.7 billion d) 7.8 trillion
c) 1.7 billion