STUDY GUIDE

I have also posted here a study guide of topics for examinations along with corresponding page #'s in the text for you to study.

1. (p. 4) What is "drug du jour" ?

2. (p. 6) What constitutes substance abuse?

3. (p. 6) What is meant by an illicit drug?

4. (p. 5, 7) What is the history of drug use?

5. (p. 8) Why is it difficult to study drug use?

6. (p. 9-11) What is known about college students and drug use?

7. (p. 11-12) What are the findings from The National Survey on Drug Use and Health

8. (p. 14) What is one of the most important risk factors for drug use?

9. (p. 15) What is known about the relationship between education and drug use?

10. (p. 15-16) What is known about the relationship between personality traits and drug abuse?

11. (p. 17) What is known about the relationship between young people who smoke cigarettes and later marijuana use?

12. (p. 16-20) Which type of factor probably plays a bigger role in determining whether a person will try a drug in the first place, as opposed to determining which of those who try it will become dependent?

13. (p. 29) Which of these substances has consistently been near the top of both the emergency room visits and drug-related deaths lists for the past 20 years?

14. (p. 30) What is the total annual number of U.S. deaths associated with all illicit drugs combined (cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, etc.)?

15. (p. 31) What are the risks of intravenous drug use?

16. (p. 33) What is dependence?

17. (p. 33) What is withdrawal syndrome evidence of?

18. (p. 33-34) What is the real driving force (explanation) behind repeated excessive drug use?

19. (p. 37, 38) Which substances is listed as having a "very high" dependence potential?

20. (p. 38) What do brain scan studies with drug users show?

21. (p. 42) Which drugs are most accepted as contributing to crimes and violence?

22. (p. 42) What does the U.S. Justice Department study of 2003 reveal about drug use among male arrestees?

23. (p. 43) About how many arrests are made in the U.S. each year for drug-law violations?

24. (p. 159) What is Rohypnol?

25. (p. 165) What is the major concern regarding the toxicity of prescription sedative-hypnotics?

26. (p. 236) What is the history of tobacco use?

30. (p. 241) What are the factors associated with lower rates of cigarette smoking among adults?

31. (p. 242) What are health concerns for users of smokeless tobacco?

32. (p. 312) What are the two major active chemicals in opium?

33. (p. 318) Where does most of the heroin in the U.S. originate from?

34. (p. 318-319) What are Vicodin and Oxycontin examples of?

35. (p. 322-323) Describe opioid withdrawal.

36. (p. 326) Describe dependence on heroin.

37. (p. 307) How was opium traditionally extracted?

38. (p. 307) What is the history of opium?

39. (p. 335) What is the history of LSD?

40. (p. 342) Describe the LSD experience and effects.

41. (p. 411) What and who are primary prevention programs aimed at?

42. (p. 418-419) What is DARE?

43. (p. 419-420) What are the research findings relative to DARE programs?

44. (p. 424) What we should be doing in drug prevention?

45. (p. 430) What are the steps necessary in evaluating the success of a drug treatment program?

46. (p. 434) What are relapse prevention approaches to treatment?

47. (p. 441) What was the substance that accounted for the most admissions in the Treatment Episode Data Set between 1996 and 2006?

48. (p. 441-442) Is treatment for drug dependence effective?

49. (p. 432-433) What is motivational enhancement therapy?

50. (p. 432) According to the DSM-IV-TR, what is the criteria for substance dependence?