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These Practice Quizzes test your knowledge of the important concepts in each chapter and provide an explanation for each answer.

Please read each question and select your answer from the choices provided. You must complete all of the questions in order to view your results. At the end of each exam, you have the option to e-mail your results to your instructor.

1: Which of the following statements is true?
	A: The number of women in prison has decreased over the past 25 years.
	B: Most states enforce the Equal Protection Act, which requires drug addicts of all races to have equal access to drug treatment programs.
	C: Prison serves as an effective location for many incarcerated drug addicts to quit "cold turkey."
	D: African-Americans marijuana users are more likely to be arrested than white marijuana users.

2: Cigarette smoking causes the greatest percentage of deaths in which of the following diseases?
	A: coronary heart disease
	B: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
	C: miscarriages
	D: lung cancer

3: Lung cancer death rates have _______________ among U.S. women over the past 30 years.
	A: increased by 400%
	B: decreased by 400%
	C: increased by 50%
	D: decreased by 50%

4: Which of the following statements concerning smoking is NOT true?
	A: If a woman quits smoking, withdrawal symptoms are most likely to appear 1 to 2 days after she smokes her last cigarette.
	B: Women who quit smoking cigarettes go through three severe, predictable phases of withdrawal.
	C: Adolescent women are more likely to smoke if a family member smokes.
	D: Nicotine sometimes acts as a stimulant and sometimes acts as a depressant.

5: According to current scientific evidence, which of the following smoking-cessation programs would be most likely to be effective?
	A: a program that combined hypnosis and acupuncture
	B: a program that offered intense psychotherapy services
	C: a program that offered multiple forms of nicotine delivery systems
	D: a program that combined self-control and group support programs

6: Which of the following health effects can result from chronic alcohol use?
	A: infertility
	B: liver damage
	C: diabetes
	D: All of the above

7: Why is taking alcohol with prescription medications potentially dangerous?
	A: The combined effect of the medication and the alcohol can be much greater than the effect of either the medication or the alcohol alone.
	B: Many medications can mask the effects of alcohol, making a woman feel less intoxicated than she really is.
	C: The alcohol can negate the effects of many important medications, causing them to be ineffective.
	D: Taken together, prescription medications and alcohol can cause spontaneous human combustion.

8: About _______ of women in the United States have recently used an illegal drug.
	A: 0.01
	B: 0.02
	C: 0.06
	D: 0.15

9: Women who abuse of which of the following drugs often develop deepened voices, breast reduction, and facial hair growth?
	A: inhalants
	B: hallucinogens
	C: anabolic steroids
	D: barbiturates

10: __________ are prescribed for their sleep-inducing and pain-relieving properties.
	A: Hallucinogens
	B: Inhalants
	C: Narcotics
	D: All of the above

11: Which of the following steps is generally helpful in dealing with a person who has become seriously intoxicated?
	A: keeping the person awake
	B: lying the person on his or her side
	C: giving the person something to eat
	D: all of the above

12: Which of the following choices is a common example of co-dependent behavior?
	A: making excuses for an addict's behavior
	B: paying an addict's bills or loaning him or her money
	C: helping an addict to buy or prepare his or her drugs
	D: All of the above

13: The average user who enters treatment is coping with an addiction to a single illegal drug.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

14: Each year, tobacco use causes more deaths than alcohol, cocaine, heroin, homicide, AIDS, and car accidents combined.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

15: Compared to men, women are more likely to report smoking because of physical addiction to nicotine rather than because of social pressures.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

16: The liver's filtration system prevents alcohol from reaching and affecting other parts of the body.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

17: Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) offices are run by teams of highly-trained, certified psychiatrists.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

18: With the exception of heroin, many narcotic drugs have legitimate medical purposes.
	A: TRUE
	B: FALSE

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