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Identify and describe the three factors that influence the effects of drugs on an individual.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Ted believes that alcohol is a stimulant, but his friend Dani is trying to convince him that alcohol is a depressant that produces the illusion of stimulation. How is this illusion produced?
 
  a) Alcohol depresses the cerebral cortex, resulting in disinhibition
  b) Alcohol depresses the brainstem, resulting in disinhibition.
  c) Alcohol depresses the medulla, resulting in disinhibition.
  d) Alcohol depresses the frontal lobes, resulting in disinhibition.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

The greater the blood supply in the tissue, the faster the absorption will be.

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