Drugs in American Society Study Set 1

Which of the following is not a narcotic, opiate, or opioid drug?

Which of the following is not a narcotic, opiate, or opioid drug?

The heroin that is derived from poppies grown in Afghanistan is shipped mainly to:

Overall, the most effective and efficient analgesics are:

Of all the well-known drugs, evidence suggests, which of the following ranks dead last with respect to the percentage of the U.S. population who uses it?

Which of the following painkillers or analgesics are not narcotics?

Which of the following effects is not an effect of the relevant dose or doses of narcotic drugs?

Compared with most of the other drugs, the margin between the ED and LD for narcotics is:

On a dose-by-dose basis, which of the following drugs is most likely to cause death by overdose?

Which of the following is used by a greater number of people-heroin versus all of the other narcotics added together?

From interviews of arrestees, sociologists have discovered that among criminals born after 1953, the percentage who said that they had used heroin has:

From interviews of arrestees, sociologists have discovered that among criminals born after 1970, the percentage who said that they had used crack cocaine has:

Currently, the drug that causes the greatest number of deaths by overdose, in absolute numbers, is:

Evidence suggests that, currently, the majority of heroin used on the street in the United States comes into the country from:

According to MTF, most high school seniors believe that the regular use of heroin is:

In the 1990s, several media sources reported that a new heroin epidemic had gripped the United States. Toward the end of the first decade of the 2000s, that epidemic had:

Soporific refers to the capacity to:

A study compared controlled opiate users with narcotic addicts and found that the former differed from the latter in:

Given the maladies, harms, and dangers associated with narcotics, the questions that nonusers are likely to pose to persons who do use them are the following: "Why use narcotics?" "Why turn on in the first place?" Discuss the answer that users of narcotics give, knowing what you know from interview studies.

What distinguishes controlled narcotic users from compulsive narcotic users, addicts, and abusers? How do controlled users avoid addiction? What are some tactics that might distinguish them-but don't?