Title: Drugs and Society Text: Ninth Edition, Glen R. Hanson, Peter J. Venturelli, Annette E. Fleckenstein
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1:  Select the incorrect statement.
A: Patent medicines containing opium did not significantly contribute to opium addiction in this country at the turn of the century.
B: Morphine was injected extensively during the Civil War causing a high rate of morphine addiction in the soldiers returning home after the war.
C: The invention of the hypodermic needle in 1853 worsened the problem of morphine addiction.
D: The average opiate addict in the early 1900s was a middle-aged, Southern, white woman.

2:  Which of the following is the most common clinical use of narcotics today?
A: Treatment of cocaine dependence
B: Pain relief
C: Cough relief
D: Relief of diarrhea

3:  Select the incorrect statement.
A: Most heroin addicts "mainline" the drug.
B: Withdrawal symptoms from heroin use resemble a bad cold.
C: Withdrawal symptoms from each narcotic are very different.
D: It requires approximately 5-7 days to recover from the physical symptoms of heroin withdrawal.

4:  Select the correct statement concerning methadone.
A: It does not have cross-tolerance with other narcotic drugs.
B: Methadone does not have the same side effects as heroin
C: Post-addiction craving for heroin is not suppressed by methadone use.
D: Methadone is as addictive as heroin if injected.

5:  Buprenorphine is used for which of the following?
A: To relieve cravings for narcotic pain relievers
B: To allow patients to receive substance abuse help discreetly from a family doctor
C: To treat morphine overdoses
D: Both A and B

6:  Use of MPTP causes which of the following diseases?
A: Alzheimer's disease
B: Parkinson's disease
C: Cancer
D: Epilepsy

7:  The receptors activated by narcotics are also activated by the endorphins.
A: True
B: False

8:  Because of their abuse potential, narcotic drugs are no longer used in a clinical setting.
A: True
B: False

9:  Doctors often do not prescribe enough narcotics to control patients' pain.
A: True
B: False

10:  Not all of the narcotics addicts who participate in methadone maintenance programs are eventually withdrawn from the methadone.
A: True
B: False

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