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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

Cocaine is derived from

  1. Erythroxylon coca

  2. Coffea arabica

  3. Thea sinensis

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

Cocaine is a strong stimulant mostly used as a recreational drug.
Erythroxylon coca is the plant that contains vital nutrients as well as numerous alkaloids, including cocaine.

Erythroxylum coca is one of two species of cultivated coca.The coca plant resembles a blackthorn bush, and grows to a height of 2–3 m (7–10 ft). The branches are straight, and the leaves, which have a green tint, are thin, opaque, oval and taper at the extremities. A marked characteristic of the leaf is an areolated portion bounded by two longitudinal curved lines, one line on each side of the midrib, and more conspicuous on the under face of the leaf.
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

Assertion- Good athletes take amphetamine.
Reason- Amphetamine brings increased activity and alertness.

  1. Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.

  2. Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion.

  3. Assertion is true but Reason is false.

  4. Both Assertion and Reason are false.

  5. Assertion is false but Reason is true.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

Amphetamine is a stimulant and an appetite suppressant. It stimulates the central nervous system by increasing the amount of  certain chemicals in the body. It brings increased activity and alertness.
But, it is illegal for athletes to take it.
Therefore, the correct answer is option E..

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

.................. is obtained from the leaves of coca bush.

  1. LSD

  2. Cocaine

  3. Heroin

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

Cocaine is a powerful addictive stimulant drug made form the leaves of the coca plant native to South America.
LSD is synthesized from ergotamine, a fungus.
Heroin is opoid synthesized by adding two acetyl groups of the molecule of morphine.
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

Charas is a product obtained from

  1. Cannabis ruderalis

  2. Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica

  3. Cannabis caparica

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

Charas is the name given to the hashish form of cannabis, which is handmade in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Jamaica. It is made from the resin of the cannabis plant, Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica.

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

The phenomenon of 'Flash back' is associated with use of 

  1. LSD

  2. Psilocybin

  3. Marijuana

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

A 'flashback' or 'involuntary recurrent memory' is a psychological phenomenon in which an individual has a sudden, usually powerful, re-experiencing of a past experience or elements of a past experience.
Some drugs can cause a person to experience flashbacks, like lysergic acid diethylamide, cannabis. Flashbacks can occur long after having used psilocybin mushrooms.
Thus, the correct answer is option (D), 'All of the above'.

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)