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Pharmacology and Therapeutics

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Engage with critical pharmacology and therapeutics questions covering drug classifications and therapeutic mechanisms. Topics include chemical absorption, medication formulations, and pharmacogenomics. This collection is useful for students preparing for medical entrance, nursing, and science competitive examinations.

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Pharmacology and Therapeutics Questions

Multiple choice evs - i community health and hygiene disorders of nervous system drug, tobacco and alcohol consumption addiction and dependence

Betnelan, Decadron and Prednisolone drugs are

  1. Antinflammatory and analgesics

  2. Narcotics

  3. Opiates

  4. Steroids
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

BetneIan is a synthetic glucocorticoid, the most active of the anti-inflammatory steroids.
Decadron is used in the treatment of cancer and is classified as a glucocorticosteroid.
Prednisolone is a synthetic glucocorticoid, a derivative of cortisol, which is used to treat a variety of inflammatory and auto-immune conditions.
Thus, the correct answer is option D

Multiple choice evs - i community health and hygiene disorders of nervous system drug, tobacco and alcohol consumption addiction and dependence

Which one of the following is a matching pair of its category?

  1. Amphetamines- Stimulant

  2. Lysergic and Dimethyl amide- Narcotic

  3. Heroin- Psychotropic

  4. Benzodiazepine- Pain killer
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

LSD is hallucinogen.
Heroin is an opium.
Benzodiazepine is a sedative.
Amphetamines is a stimulant and is used to treat narcolepsy and attention deficit disorder.
Therefore, the correct answer is option A.

Multiple choice evs - i community health and hygiene disorders of nervous system drug, tobacco and alcohol consumption addiction and dependence

The mildest stimulant is

  1. Amphetamines

  2. Caffeine

  3. Cocaine

  4. Charas
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant of the methylxanthine class of psychoactive drugs. It blocks the attachment of adenosine on its receptors. It is the mildest stimulant and is most widely consumed the psychoactive drug.
Thus, the correct answer is option B.

Multiple choice evs - i community health and hygiene disorders of nervous system drug, tobacco and alcohol consumption addiction and dependence

From an unripe opium fruit, the opium is extracted along with the following set of drugs:

  1. Hashish, morphine and heroin.

  2. Hashish, codeine, pethidine. morphine and methadone.

  3. Codeine, pethidine, methadone, morphine and heroin.

  4. Codeine, pethidine, methadone and cocaine.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Opium, narcotic drug that is obtained from unripe seedpods of the opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum), a plant of the family Papveraceae.
This raw opium may be ground into  powder or treated further to obtain derivatives such as morphine, hashish, codeine and heroin.
Thus, the correct answer is option A.

Multiple choice evs - i community health and hygiene disorders of nervous system drug, tobacco and alcohol consumption addiction and dependence

Pickup the psychedelic drug amongst the following.

  1. Lysergic acid diethylamide

  2. Barbiturate

  3. Cocain

  4. Monoamine oxidase
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Psychedelic drug is a substance, whose primary action is to alter cognition and perception, typically by agonizing serotonin receptors. They are a part of hallucinogens. Psychedelic drugs include LSD or lysergic acid diethylamide, psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline, ibogeine, salvia and DMT.
Thus, the correct answer is option (A), 'Lysergic acid diethylamide'.

Multiple choice evs - i community health and hygiene disorders of nervous system drug, tobacco and alcohol consumption addiction and dependence

Among these, Opiate narcotics is/are 

  1. Opium

  2. Morphine

  3. Methadone

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

An opiate is a narcotic analgesic that directly depresses the central nervous system. Examples include various pain killers such as morphine, methadone, buprenorphine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, heroin, opium, pethidine.
Thus, the correct answer is option (D)

Multiple choice evs - i community health and hygiene disorders of nervous system drug, tobacco and alcohol consumption addiction and dependence

............... is considered as the king of narcotics.

  1. Opium

  2. LSD

  3. Alcohol

  4. Cocaine
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Opium can rightly be called 'the king of narcotics'. Perhaps no other narcotic enjoys so much popularity as opium. Strong addictive drugs, such as heroin are synthesized from it.
Thus, the correct answer is option (A), 'Opium'.

Multiple choice evs - i community health and hygiene disorders of nervous system drug, tobacco and alcohol consumption addiction and dependence

Charas, Ganja and Marijuana are

  1. Stimulants

  2. Depressants

  3. Halucinogens

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Charas is a form of hashish of cannabis. Marijuana and ganja are obtained from the hemp plant, cannabis. These all are hallucinogens meaning substance, which brings substantial changes in thoughts, emotion, and consciousness. It is a psychoactive drugs. So, the correct answer is option C.

Multiple choice evs - i community health and hygiene disorders of nervous system drug, tobacco and alcohol consumption addiction and dependence

Naloxone is given as an intravenous antidote for the overdose of

  1. Heroin

  2. Opium

  3. Librium

  4. Morphine

  5. Alcohol
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Naloxone is a pure opoid antagonist. Naloxone  is a medication used to counter the effects of opoid especially in overdose. It will usually reverse the depression of the CNS, respiratory system and hypotension.
Thus, the correct answer is option (B), 'Opium'.

Multiple choice evs - i community health and hygiene disorders of nervous system drug, tobacco and alcohol consumption addiction and dependence

Reserpine, an antihypersensitive drug is obtained from

  1. Seeds of Withania somnifera

  2. Catharanthus roseus

  3. Rauwolfia

  4. Syzygium
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Resperine, is an indole alkaloid, antipsychotic and antihypertensive drug that has been used for the control of high BP. Resperine was isolated in 1952 from the dried root of Rauwolfia serpentina or Indian snakeroot and has been used for centuries in India for the treatment of insanity and for snake bites.
Thus, the correct answer is option (C), 'Rauwolfia'.

Multiple choice evs - i community health and hygiene disorders of nervous system drug, tobacco and alcohol consumption addiction and dependence

Psilocybin, Mescalin and LSD can be grouped under

  1. Hallucinogenic drugs

  2. Opiate drugs

  3. Stimulants

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Psilocybin is naturally occurring psychedelic compound, which has mind-altering effects like visual and mental hallucinations.
Mescalin is a naturally occurring psychedelic alkaloid of the phenethylamine class, known for its hallucinogenic effects.
LSD or lysergic acid diethylamine is a psychedelic drug of the ergoline family, which is known very well for its hallucinogenic effect.
Thus, the correct answer is option (A), 'Hallucinogenic drug'.

Multiple choice evs - i community health and hygiene disorders of nervous system drug, tobacco and alcohol consumption addiction and dependence

Diacetyl morphine is commonly known as

  1. Morphine

  2. Cannabis

  3. Heroin

  4. Cocaine

  5. Hashish
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Morphine is didehydro epoxy methylmorphinan diol.
Cannabis is tetrahydrocannabinol.
Heroin is diacetyl morphine.
Cocaine is benzoyl-methyl-ecgonine.
Hashish is similar to that of cannabis.
Thus, the correct answer is option C

Multiple choice evs - i community health and hygiene disorders of nervous system drug, tobacco and alcohol consumption addiction and dependence

Methadone is a

  1. Narcotic Opiate

  2. Sedative

  3. Stimulant

  4. Tranquillizer
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Methadone is an opioid medication, sometimes called narcotic and is used as pain reliever and as part of drug addiction.
Methadone reduces withdrawal symptoms in people addicted to heroin or other drugs without causing the 'high' associated with the drug addiction.
Thus, the correct answer is option (A), 'Opiate narcotic'.

Multiple choice evs - i community health and hygiene disorders of nervous system drug, tobacco and alcohol consumption addiction and dependence

Which one of the following is the correct match?

  1. Morphine - antidepressant

  2. Opiate - cocaine

  3. Reserpine - tranquilizer

  4. Bhang - hallucinogen
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Morphine is an opiate narcotic.
Cocaine is a stimulant.
Resperine is an anti-hypertensive drug.
Bhaang is the preparation from cannabis plant and is a hallucinogen.
Thus,the correct answer is option (D), 'Bhang-hallucinogen'.

Multiple choice evs - i community health and hygiene disorders of nervous system drug, tobacco and alcohol consumption addiction and dependence

Which one is a hallucinogen?

  1. LSD

  2. Heroin

  3. Morphine

  4. Cocaine
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Lysergic acid diethylamide or LSD is a psychedelic drug of the ergoline family which include altered thinking processes, closed and open-eye visuals, synesthesia, an altered sense of time. So, it is a hallucinogen.
Thus, the correct answer is option A.