Questions

1. Describe three major features of PCP intoxication that are significantly different from the effects of other hallucinogens.

2. What are some of the positive effects of marijuana use? What are some of the negative effects?

3. Discuss the structure and the functioning of neurons.

4. Why do you think there is an unusually intense interest in the effects of in utero exposure to cocaine, when the evidence is so much stronger with respect to the most widely available licit drugs, alcohol, and nicotine?

5. By what criteria do we say that a drug is being misused or abused?

6. Can LSD result in drug dependence? Why or why not?

7. What could be the various factors that are responsible for the effects of drugs on the mind and body?

8. Contrast the adverse effects of the acute toxicity and the chronic toxicity of drugs.

9. What types of illicit drugs are most likely to result in an Emergency Room visit?

10. Examine and describe many of the factors that influence drug-taking behavior.