Exam 5: Narcotics: Opium, Heroin, and Synthetic Opiates

The importation of opium into China was __________.

From around 1680 to around 1880,the acceptable form of taking opium among Europeans and Americans was __________.

An opium den is a term for a place where __________.

According to the text,methadone maintenance clients become dependent on __________.

After the Civil War,opioid dependence in general was so widespread among returning veterans that the condition was often called the "soldier's disease."

New forms of heroin in the 1990s __________.

Tolerance effects in a particular heroin reaction are __________.

Heroin was first introduced commercially by the same people who had marketed __________.

Ordering opioids from strongest to least strong would be the following: __________.

Two drugs used to reduce the distress of heroin withdrawal are __________.

Opium poppies are NOT __________.

Vietnamese heroin,as consumed by U.S.soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War,was 90 to 98 percent pure.

Opioid antagonists block the effects of morphine.

Prior to the eighteenth century,the Chinese used opium almost exclusively as a treatment for __________.

The most pronounced levels of tolerance to heroin can be observed in the degree of __________.

During the mid-1980s,synthetic forms of heroin,such as heroin derived from fentanyl,began to appear on the streets,created in illegal drug laboratories.

Opioid effects in the brain involve __________.

The analgesic effect of narcotic drugs refers to the reduction of __________.

Smuggling of raw opium increased as a result of the Harrison Act of 1914.

Naloxone is a pure antagonist to morphine in the brain.