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The CNS depressants include various prescription drugs referred to as… |
sedative hypnotics |
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Which of these is NOT one of the early sedative-hypnotics used in medicine? -chloral hydrate |
bromide salts |
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What has kept paraldehyde from being widely used? |
bad taste and odor |
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How are barbiturates usually classified? |
duration of action |
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Among the barbiturates, when prescribing a sleeping pill (hypnotic), physicians would usually choose a… |
higher dose of a short-acting drug |
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Two drugs that were introduced as being safer than barbiturates, but in the long run proved to be not much safer, were… |
meprobamate and methaqualone |
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The major advantage of the benzodiazepines over the barbiturates seems to be the… |
greater safety margin |
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Librium (chlordiazepoxide) and Valium (diazepam) were the first widely sold… |
benzodiazepines |
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The "date-rape" drug Rohypnol (flunitrazepam)… |
is sold as a hypnotic agent (sleeping pill) in many countries other than the U.S. |
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When benzodiazepines bind to their receptor site, they… |
enhance the inhibitory effects of GABA |
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Zolpidem (Ambien) is… |
not a benzodiazepine chemically, but it has similar effects |
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The four most widely sold benzodiazepines are all longer-acting drugs sold primarily as… |
anxiolytics |
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Sedative-hypnotic agents bind to which receptors in the brain? |
GABA |
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Animal self-administration experiments and studies of drug choice among humans indicate that… |
short-acting barbiturates are more likely to lead to dependence than any of the benzodiazepines |
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Withdrawal from long-term use of sedative-hypnotic drugs is characterized by… |
anxiety, insomnia, nausea, seizures |
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One of the most dangerous acute effects of taking depressants in combination with alcohol is… |
respiratory depression |
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Which of the following drugs could theoretically be used to treat barbiturate withdrawal? |
alchohol |
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One of the oldest gaseous anesthetics, popularly known as "laughing gas" is… |
nitrous oxide |
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What household product contains nitrous oxide? |
whipped cream dispensers |
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The modern era of abuse of volatile solvents by young people can be traced to a 1959 newspaper report of … |
glue sniffing |
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Inhalant use has traditionally been more common among… |
poor Hispanic and Native American youth |
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GHB (gamma hydroxybutyric acid)… |
occurs naturally in the brain |
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The usual recreational dose of GHB when taken alone is about… |
1-5 grams |
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Anecdotally, _____ (or poppers) are used to enhance sexual pleasure. |
amyl nitirite |
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T or F: Paraldehyde is a CNS depressant that is currently available in several over-the-counter medications. |
False |
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T or F: When barbiturates were the most popular sedative-hypnotics, low doses of the long-acting types were used as sleeping pills. |
False |
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T or F: Benzodiazepines replaced barbiturates primarily because they were believed to be safer. |
True |
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T or F: Ambien (zolpidem) is a popular benzodiazepine used to treat anxiety. |
False |
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T or F: Sodium pentathol is a long-acting barbiturate used to treat insomnia. |
False |
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T or F: Among the sedative-hypnotic drugs, short-acting barbiturates seem to be the most likely to lead to drug dependence. |
True |
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T or F: Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is a schedule 1 controlled substance. |
False |
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T or F: The majority of "huffers" (users of inhalants) are above age. |
False |
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T or F: Volatile solvents that act as CNS depressants are found in a wide variety of houshold products. |
True |
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