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Unit 10 Substance Use Disorders
1. Which is a legal substance of abuse?
Bhang
2. At what blood alcohol level is drunken driving punishable in India?
30 gm%
3. Which of the following substances have the highest addictive potential?
Heroin
4. What needs to be done for a diagnosis of harmful use:
Actual physical harm needs to be documented
5. Which is the most common substance of abuse in India?
Tobacco
6. Which is the most common illicit (illegal) substance of use in India?
Cannabis
7. What is early onset of substance use associated with?
a) More severe dependence
b) More rapid shift to harder drugs
c) More co-morbid illness like antisocial personality
8. What are some specific characteristics of women substance users?
a) Are introduced to substance use by their male partners
b) Have a more rapid downhill course
c) Come for treatment less often
9. Which is the commonest chemical substance in the brain, implicated in addiction of substances?
Dopamine
10. Which is the single most important environmental factor for starting drug use?
Substance use in friends
11. What is the gateway hypothesis?
Softer drugs lead to subsequent harder drug use
12. What is the most common cause of drug use?
Suitable environment results in manifestation of the genetic predisposition.
13. Does the Indian Law allow the drug user to opt for treatment instead of going to jail?
Yes
14. What happens with use of Cannabis?
a) Increases the chance of mental illness
b) Decreases pain particularly in cancer
c) Decreases the chance of seizure
15. What can inhalants (glue sniffing) can result in?
a) Blindness
b) Memory loss
c) Disturbance in body balance
16. What is the most common symptom associated with alcohol withdrawal?
Tremor
17. An alcoholic instead of accepting his problems, starts blaming the problems in his family as a cause of his alcohol intake. What is this phenomenon called?
Projection
18. What are the features of alcohol withdrawal?
Epileptic seizure
Restlessness
Hallucination
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