When People Get "Hooked" on Drug of Abuse, the Sequence

question 11

Multiple Choice

When people get "hooked" on drug of abuse, the sequence of events often proceeds something like this: They take a dose that gives them their desired effect, then after a while that dose does not work anymore, so they up the dose. This cycle can continue for a while, but then they reach the point where if they skip a dose or try to quit, they experience severe withdrawal. Which of the following properties of signaling systems is most likely to explain this series of events?

• A) up-regulation of receptors
• B) down-regulation of receptors
• C) competition
• D) saturation

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Definitions:

Standard Normal

A type of normal distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.

Area

In mathematics, the extent of a two-dimensional surface within a boundary, measured in square units.

Probability Density

A function that describes the relative likelihood for a continuous random variable to occur at a specific point.

Normally Distributed

A statistical distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.