Sedative, hypnotic, or anxiolytic use

Question 1

Drugs of diverse chemical structures that are all capable of inducing varying degrees of CNS depression.

Answer 1

Compounds of sedative, hypnotic, and anxiolytic

Question 2

The effects of CNS depressants are additive with one another and with the behavioral state of the user

Answer 2

drugs are used in combination to increase depressive effects

Question 3

CNS depressants are capable of producing

Answer 3

physiological and psychological addiction

Question 4

A condition in which an individual becomes resistant to the effects of one drug because he or she has developed tolerance to another drug with similar pharmacological activity

Answer 4

Cross tolerance

Question 5

A condition in which an individual can become dependent on more than one substance because of their similar activity and effects.

Answer 5

Cross dependence

Question 6

Barbiturates, nonbarbiturate hypnotics, antianxiety agent, and club drugs

Answer 6

Categories of sedative, hypnotic, and anxiolytic drugs

Question 7

Presence of clinically significant maladaptive behavioral or psychological changes that develop during or shortly after use of one of these substances.

Answer 7

Sedative, hypnotic, and anxiolytic intoxication