ADC Exam Prep questions with correct answers

Recreational Use typically means - Answer weekly or bi-weekly use, typically in a social setting You get a shorter and more intense high when - Answer the drug is absorbed into the body faster Antogonist drug interaction - Answer like meth and opiates Additive drug interaction - Answer cumulative effect Synergistic drug interaction - Answer more than comulative potentiating drug interaction - Answer each enhances the other Tolerance develops as the body seeks - Answer homeostatis When tolerance for barbituates develops (2) - Answer tolerance for a lethal dose only increases a little bit the potential for an overdose increases the longer a person uses Wernicke's encephalopathy - Answer a short term vitamin D defficiency due to poor nutrition after years of drinking Signs are poor muscle coordination, eye impairment