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Questions Related to community health and hygiene
Benzodiazepines are
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Antipsychotic
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Antidepressant
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Antianxiety
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Both A and B
Psychotropic drugs
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Are mood altering drugs
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Treat mental illness
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Increase physical activity
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Decrease physical activity
The drug that functions as depressants of CNS is
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Amphetamine
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Caffeine
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Opium
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Cocaine
Reserpine an alkaloid or drug extracted from roots of the following plant which cures the mental disorders and reduces or check the blood pressure or A hypertension drug is derived from
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Rauwolfia serpentina
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Ferula asafoetida
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Atropa belladona
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Digitalis perpurea
Rauwolfia serpentina or Reserpine (Family - Apocyanaceae) has several alkoloids - reserpine, reserpinine, serpentine, sarpajmaline etc.
Psychotic drugs include
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Sedatives, tranquilizers and stimulants
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Narcotics and hallucinogens
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Vodka
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Both A and B
The tranquillizers differ from the sedatives that they
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Make a person more wakeful
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Produce calmness
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Produce calmness without inducing sleep
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Produce deep sleep
Opium, morphine, heroin, etc., are opiate narcotics, which suppress brain functions relieve pain, whereas sedatives and tranquillizers depress brain activity and produce feelings of calmness, e.g., barbiturates (sleeping pills), benzodiazepines (tranquillizers). So, the correct answer is option C.
Sedatives differ from tranquilisers in
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Sedatives induce sleep while tranquilisers do not do so
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Sedatives depress brain activity while tranquilizers activate brain functioning
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Sedatives are strong tranquilizers
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Sedatives cause addiction while tranquilisers do not produce such an effect
Study the following statements with reference to drugs and choose the incorrect ones.
(i) Barbiturates cause the sleeplessness.
Opiods
are obtained from the leaves of Erythroxylum coca.
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i, ii, iii
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ii, iii, iv
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i, iii, iv
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i, ii, iv
Which one of the following statements is correct?
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Lysergic acid diethylamide is a depressent
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Heroin is diacetyl morphine
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Hashish has hallucigenic property
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Cocaine is opioid drug
Hypotensive tranquilliser drug reserpine is obtained from roots of
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Ferula asafoetida
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Rauwilfia serpentina
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Papver somniferum
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Curcuma longa
Reserpine is an alkaloid extracted from the roots of the plant, 𝘙𝘢𝘶𝘸𝘰𝘭𝘧𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘢 and it has been used as an antihypertensive medication i.e., to reduce high blood pressure. It produces a fall in B.P known as hypotension. Apart from being an antihypertensive drug, Reserpine is also an antipsychotic/traquilizer used in reducing anxiety and tension producng a calming/soothing effect.
So, the correct answer is ' 𝘙𝘢𝘶𝘸𝘰𝘭𝘧𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘢'.