Types of Drugs
Forensics Tests
Drugs and the Law
Types of Addiction
Potpourri
100
/What class of drug is heroin?
narcotic
100
What test separates the various parts of a drug mixture?
chromatography
100
Drugs with the highest potential for abuse and no medical use are placed in what schedule of the Federal Drug Control Act?
Schedule 1
100
This type of addiction results in withdrawal symptoms if the drug is removed.
physical addiction
100
What hallucinogen can cause flashbacks even years after taking a dose?
LSD
200
What class of drug is LSD?
hallucinogen
200
What type of test is often done by police officers in the field?
screening or color tests
200
What is meant by "possession with intent?"
You have drugs on you in such quantities that you will presumably sell the extra.
200
This type of addiction causes many smokers to return to smoking, even though they haven't had a cigarette in more than two days.
psychological addiction
200
What highly psychologically addictive drug puts "holes" in your brain, areas where brain activity stops?
meth
300
What class of drug is cocaine?
stimulant
300
What type of test provides a "fingerprint" of the drug for identification?
infrared (IR) spectrophotometry
300
Name two ways addicts addicted to prescription drugs often obtain them.
forged prescriptions, off the street from dealers, breaking into pharmacies, etc.
300
The type(s) of addiction normally caused by cocaine.
psychological
300
What is the most widely abused drug in the U.S.?
alcohol
400
What class of drug is alcohol?
depressant
400
What color test is used to possibly indicated marijuana?
Duquenois-Levine
400
Most of the cocaine in the U.S. originated in what country?
Columbia
400
The type(s) of addiction normally caused by heroin.
psychological and physical
400
What is the most widely abused illegal drug in the U.S.?
marijuana
500
What class of drug is marijuana?
hallucinogen
500
What color test is used to possibly indicate LSD?
Van Urk
500
What forensic test is admissible in a court of law as definite proof of a drug's identity?
Mass spectrophotometry or infrared (IR) spectrophotometry
500
A Schedule 1 drug with very low psychological addiction and no physical addiction.
marijuana
500
Name both examples of a date rape drug?
roofies and GHB