Chapter 03 - Drug Policy
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In a Chronicle Herald article, patients treated at the Centre for Pain Management in Halifax were asked to provide which of the following (which many felt was against their rights)?
A. a blood test
B. a urinary toxicology
C. weekly sexual h...
1. What were the questions who, what, why, when, where, how, and how much introduced to
do?
A. Understand the dependence potential of a drug.
B. Help us evaluate whether a particular type of drug use is a problem.
C. Determine the toxicity of a drug.
D. Track arrest data for drug law violations.
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Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Develop an analytical framework for understanding any specific drug-use issue.
Topic: 01-01 "The Drug Problem"
2. If a substance is consistently used in a particular kind of situations (e.g., at parties, as
opposed to when one is alone), what can it help us understand?
A. The amount of the substance being used.
B. The type of substance being used.
C. The reason the substance is being used.
D. Who is using the substance?
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Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Develop an analytical framework for understanding any specific drug-use issue.
Topic: 01-01 "The Drug Problem"
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3. The media has been reporting on drug use ranging from methamphetamine to ecstasy to
glue sniffing. How have these various examples been described in the media?
A. The "drug du jour"
B. Drug use: a laissez-faire reality
C. Drugs that are always bad drugs
D. Drug use by celebrities
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Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Develop an analytical framework for understanding any specific drug-use issue.
Topic: 01-01 "The Drug Problem"
4. What did a 2015 survey of high school students in Ontario reveal regarding the use of
ecstasy in the previous 12-month period?
A. Less than 1% of the students self-reported using ecstasy
B. 5.4% of the students self-reported using ecstasy
C. 10.4% of the students self-reported using ecstasy
D. 15.4% of the students self-reported using ecstasy
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Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Develop an analytical framework for understanding any specific drug-use issue.
Topic: 01-03 Four Principles of Psychoactive Drugs
5. A survey completed regarding drug use and Aboriginals living on reserves in Canada
reported that most youth who tried solvents did so by which age?
A. ten years
B. eleven years
C. thirteen years
D. fourteen years
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Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Develop an analytical framework for understanding any specific drug-use issue.
Topic: 01-03 Four Principles of Psychoactive Drugs
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6. How a drug exists is an important fact to consider. For instance, compared to smoking
cocaine in the form of "crack", how will Indigenous South Americans who chew coca leaves
absorb cocaine?
A. Quickly over a short period of time.
B. Slowly over a short period of time.
C. Slowly over a long period.
D. Quickly and continuously over a long period.
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Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-01 Develop an analytical framework for understanding any specific drug-use issue.
Topic: 01-03 Four Principles of Psychoactive Drugs
7. All of the following EXCEPT which one, are examples of harm reduction measures
reflected in Canada's Drug Strategy, to reduce the damage associated with alcohol and drugs?
A. Television educational campaigns
B. Safe injection sites
C. Methadone maintenance therapy
D. Syringe exchange programs
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Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 01-01 Develop an analytical framework for understanding any specific drug-use issue.
Topic: 01-03 Four Principles of Psychoactive Drugs
8. What is one of the four principles of psychoactive drug use?
A. All psychoactive drugs should be banned.
B. Most people are unable to control their own drug use.
C. Every drug has an opposite drug that can counteract it.
D. Frugs, per se, are not good or bad.
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Blooms: Remember
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 01-02 Apply four general principles of psychoactive drug use to any specific drug-use issue.
Topic: 01-03 Four Principles of Psychoactive Drugs
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