Study Guide: Final Exam
Alcohol -
Define:
- Alcohol dehydrogenase
- Cirrhosis
- Drunkorexia
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
What is blood alcohol concentration? How is it affected by body fat? How does a person's sex affect blood alcohol concentration?
How does alcohol affect the brain? What neurotransmitters does it interact with?
What kinds of acute and chronic toxicity does alcohol cause?
Why is it dangerous to mix alcohol and energy drinks?
How does alcohol affect a fetus during pregnancy?
What are the health benefits of drinking alcohol?
Tobacco -
How does nicotine affect the brain? What neurotransmitters does it interact with?
If alcohol causes responses like an increase in heart rate and blood pressure, why do smokers say they find smoking relaxing?
Why does the average smoker weigh less than the average non-smoker?
Are rates of cigarette smoking increasing or decreasing? Why?
Do cigarettes with less tar and nicotine make smoking safer? Why or why not?
What is the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act? (Often just called the Tobacco Control Act)
Why are cigarette companies so focused on getting young people to smoke?
Are e-cigarettes a safer alternative to cigarettes? Why or why not?
What major health problems does smoking cause?
What are the dangers of passive smoking?
What is a carcinogen?
What are the risks of smoking during pregnancy? Smoking around children?
What resources are available for people who want to quit smoking?
What steps has NYC taken to help people quit smoking?
Define:
- Sympathomimetic
- Stimulants
- What are stimulants?
- Cocaine
How can it be administered?
What are its effects?
How does it affect the brain?
Medical uses?
Acute and chronic toxicity?
Amphetamines (crystal meth)
How can it be administered?
What are its effects?
How does it affect the brain?
Medical uses?
Acute and chronic toxicity?
Caffeine
Health benefits
What are its effects?
How does it affect the brain?
Withdrawal symptoms
Sources of caffeine
Opiates -
How do they make the user feel?
What is opium, and what important ingredients does it contain?
Definitions of the word "narcotics"
Difference between opiates and other kinds of pain relievers
What are medical uses of opiates?
What are the differences between morphine and heroin?
What is heroin?
How does heroin affect the brain?
What are the dangers of heroin use?
Define behavioral tolerance
What is harm reduction, and what are some examples ?
Why is Oxycontin abuse dangerous?
Hallucinogens -
Define:
- Psychedelics
- Enactogens
- Entheogens
- Psychotomimetic
- Smpathomimetic
- Synesthesia
LSD:
What is it?
What are its effects?
How does it affect the brain?
Medical uses
What are the dangers of LSD use?
Is it addictive?
MDMA -
What is it?
Street names
What class of drugs does it belong in?
How does it affect the user?
How does it affect the brain?
Is it addictive?
Medical uses
Marijuana
What is it?
How does it affect the user?
How does it affect the brain?
Is it addictive?
Medical uses
What are the dangers of marijuana use?
What have the benefits of legal marijuana in Colorado been?
Inhalants -
What are they?
What are their effects on the user?
What are their effects on the brain?
Why are they especially appealing to young people?
Why are they dangerous?
Preventing Substance Abuse -
Knowledge/Attitudes/Behavior model.
What is affective education, and give some examples
What is "normative education"
What is DARE, and is it effective?
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