Exam 2

Question 1

What is the leading cause of preventable illness and death in the US

Answer 1

Tobacco use

Question 2

COPD deaths to to smoking is

Answer 2

%80

Question 3

Tobacco and caffeine interactions

Answer 3

Tobacco and 3+ cups of coffee per day speed up the same enzymes needed to clear caffeine

Question 4

What is the most widely psychoactive drug in the US

Answer 4

1 drug problem in America

Alcohol

Question 5

Who is mostly like to use alcohol

Answer 5

Whites, full time employed adults, but heavier use in unemployed.

Use increases with education

Question 6

What is the number 1 rape drug?

Answer 6

Alcohol

Contributes to intentional violence

Question 7

Drug abuse is

Answer 7

Non medically approved purpose, continued use of legal drugs when knowing its hazardous

Question 8

Males are how much more likely to use marijuana

Answer 8

2x

Question 9

What is the comprehensive drugs abuse act of 1970?

Answer 9

Controlled substances

Question 10

What is the most abused illicit drug

Answer 10

Marijuana

Question 11

What is the most widely abused narcotic?

Answer 11

Heroin

Question 12

What is synesthesia

Answer 12

A mixing of the senses

Question 13

What type of drug does tolerance build quickly?

Answer 13

Stimulants

Question 14

Club drugs are mainly

Answer 14

Synthetic

Question 15

The controlled substances analogue act of 1986 is

Answer 15

Designed to reduce the flow of designer drugs

Question 16

Which drugs are most likely used by youths

Answer 16

Inhalants

Question 17

Brown lung disease is from what

Answer 17

Inhalation of dust from cotton, flax, hemp

Textile workers

Question 18

What is byssinosis

Answer 18

Brown lung disease associated with textile factory workers

Question 19

What is the number 1 cause of accidental poisoning deaths in the US

Answer 19

Carbon monoxide

Question 20

Odorless and colorless gas that is the #2 cause of lung cancer overall

Answer 20

1 cause of lung cancer in non smokers

RADON

Question 21

Odorless and flavorless

Answer 21

Arsenic
Large amounts= kill fast

Small amounts= long term slow death and other illness

Question 22

What is the first stage of arsenic poisoning

Answer 22

Metallic taste in mouth

Question 23

What is the second stage of arsenic poisoning

Answer 23

Garlic like breath

Final stage is death bc kidney fails

Question 24

Pregnant women should not consume how many ounces of tuna per week?

Answer 24

No more than 7 oz

Question 25

Mercury is a

Answer 25

Neurotoxin Damages brain and kidneys

Question 26

Lead affects

Answer 26

Children MC, more than 400,000 kids under 6 HIGHLY TOXIC Paint/batteries

Question 27

What is the biggest symptom of lead poisoning

Answer 27

BLUE GUMS Brain is MC organ

Question 28

Aluminum does accumulate in the body's tissues and

Answer 28

Toxic to the brain and nervous system

Question 29

What is the biggest source of aluminum

Answer 29

Municipal water supplies

Question 30

What poisoning mimics symptoms of Alzheimer's

Answer 30

Aluminum

Question 31

When did PCB's get banned

Answer 31

1977

Question 32

Dioxins are a group of chemicals released in the government from forest fires, burning trash etc.

Answer 32

Agent orange is an example

Question 33

What type of toxin accumulate in the fatty tissue of animals

Answer 33

Dioxins and PCB's

Question 34

How are humans exposed to dioxins and PCB's

Answer 34

90% through food Dioxins 7-11 yrs PCB's 8-15yrs Half life's

Question 35

Who is it most important to avoid Dioxin and PCB

Answer 35

Girls and young women, to decrease exposure to fetus

Question 36

How do we get most of the Bisphenol A aka (BPA)

Answer 36

Mainly canned foods, liquids stored or heated in plastic Low semen quality, abnormal brain development

Question 37

When did they ban BPA bottles for children

Answer 37

2011 Never microwave plastic Avoid plastics with #7

Question 38

DDT was banned when?

Answer 38

1972 in the US Worldwide in 2004 15yrs to break down Atmospheric deposition is the new contaminate in the Great Lakes

Question 39

What is the half life of DDT in humans

Answer 39

8 years

Question 40

What is the second MC pesticide in the US

Answer 40

Atrazine Roundup is #1

Question 41

Where is atrazine MC used

Answer 41

Midwest Contaminated i streams and ground water

Question 42

DES was prescribed for who?

Answer 42

Pregnant women between 1940-1971 5-10 million Americans were exposed

Question 43

DES caused what

Answer 43

Increased breast cancer in moms 40x risk for clear cell adenocarcinoma for the daughters 2x risk for breast cancer and fertility problems for daughters

Question 44

DES sons suffered from what

Answer 44

Testicular abnormalities