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Read the following and answer any given below:Drugs and Alcohol Abuse:The use of drugs and alcohol is seen in the youth. Narcotic drugs like Opioids, Cannabinoids, Cocaine, Heroin, Marijuana and LSD are extracted from flowering plants and fungi. Opiods are drugs which are bound with specific opioid receptors in our central nervous system and gastro-intestinal tract. Opioids is dry latex which obtained by making fissure in unripe fruit. From Opioid pain relieving drugs like morphine and codeine are obtained. Morphines in a well-known pain reliever drug which generally acts on the nerve cells of small brain, obstructs pain and relieve the body from pain which functions as a stimulator. Opium inspires pleasant feelings. It draws out anxiety, fear and stress it leads to the addiction. Codeine is another type of alkaloid obtained from opium. That is a pain-reliever medicine. Sometimes it is used in the cough syrup too it cools down the reaction of cough. Relieve the stress felt in stomach and intestine. Heroin or diacetylmorphine is white crystalline material which is a pain reliever and is pleasure related drug. Smack (brown sugar) is an unclear by product of heroin. Cannabinoids are a group of chemical, which gets connected internally to cannabinoid receptors present in the brain. Cannabinoids, Bhang, Ganja are obtained from dried leaves and flowers of Cannabis indica are obtained from the inflorescence of the plant and dried leaves. Marijuana is obtained from Cannabis sativa . It is obtained from flower tops, leaves and resin of cannabis plants. The main active element of it is dell- Tetrahydro cannabino (THC). When this medicine is taken, the eye-pupils get didated. Urine is produced more quantity and the level of sugar in the blood increases.(i) What is known as pain reliever drug ? a. Marijuana b. Morphine c. Nicotine d. LSD(ii) Which substance draws out anxiety, fear and strees and inspires pleasant feeling ? a. Opium b. Codeine c. Morphine d. Marijuana(iii) Which medicine is used in cough syrup ? a. Morphine b. LSD c. Codeine d. Marijuana(iv) Bhang, GanJa and Charas are obtained from X and MariJuana is obtained from y . a. X = Cannabis indica, Y = Cannabis sativa b. X = Cannabis indica, Y = Erythroxylum coca c. X = Cannabis sativa, y = Cannabis indica d. X = Erythroxylum coca, Y = Cannabis indica(v) Assertion: Morphine is well known pain relieving drug.Reason: Which generally acts on the nerve cells of small brain, obstruct pain and relieve body from pain. a. Both assertion and reason are true, and reason is the correct explanation of assertion. b. Both assertion and reason are true, but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion. c. Assertion is true but reason is false d. Both assertion and reason are false. |
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Answer» (i) b. Morphine (ii) c. Morphine (iii) c. Codeine (iv) a. X = Cannabis indica, Y = Cannabis sativa (v) a. Both assertion and reason are true, and reason is the correct explanation of assertion. |
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