Alcohol
What category of drugs (by effect) does alcohol belong to?
Depressants
What category of drugs (by effect) does caffeine belong to?
Stimulants
How much does it cost to produce a pack of cigarettes?
(Tolerance 10 cents)
5 cents
A long-acting opioid medication that is used as a pain reliever and, together with counseling and other psychosocial services, is used to treat people addicted to heroin and certain prescription drugs.
Methadone
What bigger group do Z-drugs, like Zolpidem (Ambien), zaleplon (Sonata) and eszopiclone (Lunesta) belong to?
Non-benzodiazepines
How long does it take for the lining of your mouth and stomach to absorb some alcohol?
(Tolerance 10 seconds)
Within 90 seconds of your first sip, the lining of your mouth and stomach absorb some of the alcohol directly into your bloodstream.
How many % of adults worldwide consume caffeine in some form?
(tolerance 10%)
90 %
What class of drugs (by effects) does nicotine belong to?
Stimulants
First choice drug for anxiety/insomnia/seizure disorders; safer than general CNS depressants; side effects include confusion and anterograde amnesia
Benzodiazepines.
A new formulation of buprenorphine that includes naloxone is called?
suboxone
Neonate is born with these physical defects:
What is the name of the set of problems of this baby born to an addicted mother?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Who metabolizes 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine faster, men or women?
Women metabolize caffeine about 25% faster than men.
What is a lethal dosage of nicotine for children?
(tolerance 0.2 mg/kg)
0.1 mg/kg
What effect on GABA do Benzodiazepines and Barbiturates have?
Increase the GABA effects
What group of drugs did the person possibly overdosed on?
Barbiturates
Around 80% of East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans) carry an allele (called ADH1B*2) of the gene coding for the enzyme, which results in converting alcohol to toxic acetaldehyde more quickly than other gene variants common outside of East Asia. What is the name of that enzyme?
Alcohol dehydrogenase
Does caffeine accumulate in body fat?
Because caffeine passes through human tissue so completely, it does NOT accumulate in body fat as do other psychotropic drugs, such as marijuana.
What neurotransmitter does the molecule of nicotine resemble?
The nicotine molecule is shaped like a neurotransmitter called acetylcholine.
Weak partial mu-opioid receptor agonist and a weak kappa-opioid receptor antagonist used for the treatment of severe pain. It is also commonly used as an alternative to methadone for the treatment of severe opioid addiction.
Buprenorphine
A set of problems that may affect a child if the mother used certain drugs while she was pregnant.
(These drugs may include prescription medicines or illegal drugs. Some examples are heroin, methadone, morphine, buprenorphine, and hydromorphone .)
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
There are four stages of liver failure: 1.Inflammation, 2. Fibrosis, 3. ?, 4. End-stage liver disease.
What is the name of the third stage?
Cirrhosis.
What effect does caffeine have on dopamine uptake?
Caffeine DECREASES dopamine uptake, which increases the pleasure center of the brain and may explain the substance’s addictive qualities.
How many chemicals are burned when smoking a cigarette?
(Tolerance 300)
There are approximately 7,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke.
Lack of dopamine (akin to lower endorphin levels) leads to inability to experience pleasure-also known as...
Anhedonia
Would patient have an opiate-positive urine test after using methadone?
No. Opiate-positive urine test would be a sign of heroin use because methadone does not register as an opiate.