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100 Cards in this Set
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A person who wrongfully furnishes another person small quantities of illegal drugs, more for the convenience of the user than profit?
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Casual supplier
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Which of the following is a way to place a controlled substance on the FSCA
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Administrative acts passed by Congress
Legislative acts passed by Congress |
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What act, passed by Congress in 1988, allows for the regulation of certain chemicals used in the making of controlled substances?
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Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act
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Under 21 USC Section 811, the FSCA classified drugs into a total of how many schedules?
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Five
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Which sources may petition to add, delete, or change the schedule of a drug?
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A drug manufacturer
A government agency A medical society |
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Which factors determines the schedule in which a drug or other substance should be placed?
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The drug's potential for abuse
The scientific evidence of the drugs pharmacological effects The scope, duration, and significance of abuse |
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Has a currently accepted medical use with severe restriction
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Schedule II
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Has no currently accepted medical use in treatment
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Schedule I
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Abuse of this drug may lead to limited psychological dependence
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Schedule IV
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Abuse of this drug may lead to moderate physical dependence
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Schedule III
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Drugs that have the lowest potential for abuse are found under what schedule?
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Schedule V
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When DEA determines that a drug or substance be controlled, a proposal is published in which of the following books?
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Federal Register
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Once the final order is published in the Federal Register, interested parties have a maximum of how many days to appeal the scheduling of a drug?
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Thirty
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In 1984, what act ammended the FSCA to allow the administrator of the DEA to temporarily place a substance into Schedule I
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Comprehensive Crime Control Act
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May a temporarily scheduling order be extended?
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Yes; six months
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What 1986 act created a new class of substances known as controlled substance analogues?
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Anti-Drug Abuse Act
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In what year did Congress ratify the treaty, Convention on Psychotropic Substances?
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1971
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Any person who handles controlled substances must obtain a registration issued by the DEA
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True
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FCSA requires that all controlled substances be inventoried at least how often?
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Two years
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Which schedule of drugs requires the supplier to have a special order form from the costumer?
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Schedules I and II
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The determination to place drugs on prescription is within whose jurisdiction
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FDA
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Which schedule drugs must be stored in specially constructed vaults?
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Schedule I and II
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What drug properties determines the federal trafficking penalties?
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The weight
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An MA wishing to identify a tablet should consult what section of the Physicians Desk Reference (PDR)
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Product section
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What type of book is the PDR?
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Medical reference book
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MAs most commonly obtain a PDR by...?
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By obtaining a preceding year's copy from a physician
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The stimulant cocaine is a narcotic by legal definition
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True
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When used as an analgesic, narcotics provide what type of relief?
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Physical and psychic
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What does the term "skin popping" means?
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User is injecting intramuscularly
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Narcotics tend to have which of the following physical effects on the users?
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Reduced vision
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When a user of narcotics is deprived of the drug, when are the first withdrawal signs experienced?
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Shortly before the next schedule dose
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Without treatment, withdrawal symptoms disappear in how many days?
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Seven to Ten days
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Because drug addicts tend to neglect themselves, they often suffer which disorders?
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Malnutrition
Infections Injury |
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The main source of nonsynthetic narcotics is from what plant?
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Poppy
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What type of odor does raw opium have?
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Pungent
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Morphine is derived from?
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Opium
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In the illicit market, morphine usually appears in which of the following forms?
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Powder
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Morphine has what type of odor?
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None
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Codeine is found in the market in what form?
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Tablet, Liquid, Capsule
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Thebaine produces a depressant effect
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False
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Which drug is morphine like and usually appears as crystalline white powder
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Heroin
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Heroin is how many times stronger than morphine in its pure form
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Four to Five
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Heroin entering the US from Europe is usually of what purity?
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Over 90%
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Most commonly injected narcotic
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Heroin
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Dilaudid
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Hydromorphone
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Potency is from 2 to 8 times greater than morphine
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Hydromorphone
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Synthesized from thebaine
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Oxycodone
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Usually taken for relief of diarrhea
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Paregoric
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What are the two most widely available synthetic drugs?
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Methadone and Meperidine
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Which of the following is a commercial name for Pethidine
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Demerol
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The effects of morphine-based drugs differ from methadone in what way?
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Methadone has a longer duration of action
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Fentanyl has a clinical potency of how many times that of morphine
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50 to 100
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How many different types of fentanyls are approved for marketing in the United States
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4
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Fentanyl falls into what schedule of the FSCA
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Schedule II
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The biological effects of fentanyls are indistinguishable from which drug?
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Heroin
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Fentanyls produce pharmacological effects characteristics of which of the following drugs
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Opiates
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Fentanyl users experience the first effects within a maximum of how many seconds after administration
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90
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3-mathylfantanyl has a duration of action of approximately how many hours
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4
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Fentanyls are most commonly taken by which method?
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Intravenous
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Street samples of fentanyls usually do not have distinctive color, odor, taste
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True
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Fentanyl plasma levels above how many nanograms per milliliter are associated with respiratory depression
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2 to 3
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Respiratory depression caused by fentanyls can be quickly and effectively reversed by administering what drug?
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Naloxone
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Prescribed depressants are sometimes helpful in the relief of which of the following disorder
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Tension
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Intoxicating doses of depressants may cause what effects?
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Slurred speech
Impaired judgement Loss of motor cordination |
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Chronic intoxication caused by use of depressants is most common in what age group?
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Middle age
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Which of the following is a symptom of severe depressant poisoning
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Rapid Pulse
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Which drug is the most sought after by depressant abusers?
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Seconal
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After oral administration of an intermediate-acting barbiturate, what is the approximate action time?
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15 to 40
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Barbiturates can be very dangerous because tolerance, mental, and physical dependence develops
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True
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Barbiturates are most often taken in which of the following forms?
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Capsule
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Exceptionally difficult to reverse overdoses, often resulting in death
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Glutethimide
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Miltown (Nickname)
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Meprobamate
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Duration of action similar to intermediate-acting barbiturates
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Meprobamate
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Margin of safety is greater than other depressants
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Benzodiazepines
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What are the two most prevalent stimulants
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Nicotine and Caffeine
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Users sometimes rely on stimulants for which reasons?
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To be more decisive
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The use of stimulants may cause which effects?
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Anxiety
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The protracted use of stimulants is normally followed by a period of depression known by what term?
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Crashing
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Heavy users who inject themselves with stimulants every few hours may experience what effects?
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Delirium
Psychosis Physical exhaustion |
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When high-dose users are withdrawn from stimulants, they exhibit profound depression for up to how many hours per day?
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20 hours
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Cocaine is often adulterated to what percentage of its volume
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50%
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Cocaine is most often adulterated with which of the following ingredients
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Sugar
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To convert cocaine to a base for freebasing, what substance is used?
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Solvent
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Cocaine is popularly accepted as what kind of drug
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Psychic
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Tolerance seldom develops among cocaine users
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True
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Excessive doses of cocaine may cause which of the following disorders?
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Seizures
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Combinations shots of cocaine, heroin, and morphine are known by what term?
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Speedballs
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What method is used to free base traditional cocaine?
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Smoked through a water pipe
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Which substances is NOT used in the processing of crack
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Ether
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The euphoria caused by crack has been known to last how long?
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2 to 20 min
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Overdoses caused by either cocaine free base or crack can cause which of the following disorders
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Fatal cardiorespiratory arrest
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What behaviors may persons on crack exhibit?
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Violent and Suicidal
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What is the name of the drug that is known as the designer drug of the 1980's
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Ecstasy
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Ecstasy has been around for at least how many years?
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75 years
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Ecstasy was initially meant to be used for which disorder
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Obesity
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What names is ecstasy refer to in the streets?
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M&M
Adam Yuppie drug |
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MDMA produces psychotic states that may last for up to how long?
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Weeks
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Ecstasy has the same effects as which drugs
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LSD plus an amphetamine
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When was methcathinone placed under Schedule I of the FSCA
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October 1993
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What color is methcathinone when it is sold on the street
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White to off white
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