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TEST BANK FOR DRUGS, BEHAVIOUR, AND SOCIETY, 2ND CANADIAN EDITION, BY CARL HART, CHARLES KSIR, ANDREA HEBB, ROBERT GILBERT, SHAUN BLACK$17.99
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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.
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?
3. For the past 40 years 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
4. 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
5. 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.
,6. 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
7. One of the four principles of psychoactive drug use is that
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. drugs, per se, are not good or bad.
8. One of the four principles of psychoactive drugs is that every drug has "____________."
A. effects on the heart
B. impurities
C. multiple effects
D. mind altering potential
9. Which of the four principles of psychoactive drug use would state; "the effect of any psychoactive drug
depends on ___________________."
A. the individual's history and expectations
B. its legal status
C. the user's diet
D. the user's unique brain chemistry
10. Which term is used to describe, the use of a substance in a manner, amount, or situation such that the drug
causes problems or greatly increases the chances of problems occurring?
A. Addiction
B. Dependence
C. Abuse
D. Tolerance
11. Which term refers to a state in which an individual uses a drug so frequently and consistently that it would
be difficult for the person to get along without using the drug?
A. Addiction
B. Dependence
C. Abuse
D. Tolerance
, 12. Which term describes a situation when a person's reaction to a psychopharmaceutical drug (such as a
painkiller) decreases so that larger doses are required to achieve the same effect?
A. Addiction
B. Dependence
C. Abuse
D. Tolerance
13. Because drugs alter consciousness and thought processes, the affects experienced will depend on which of
the following?
A. Expectations
B. Attitudes
C. Individual history
D. All of the answers are correct
14. How does the text define a drug that is unlawful to possess or use?
A. An illicit drug.
B. A narcotic.
C. An addictive drug.
D. An abused drug.
15. How long have drugs played a significant role in human society?
A. for thousands of years
B. for about the past 200 years
C. since the 1920s
D. only since the 1960s
16. In the past 100 years, the introduction of vaccines to prevent diseases and antibiotics to cure some types of
infections laid the foundation for
A. illicit drug markets.
B. our acceptance of medicines as the cornerstone of our health care system.
C. many dangerous drug interactions.
D. the "war on drugs."
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