Chapter 11 Flashcards
The DEA consider what drugs to pose the greatest threat?
Controlled Prescription Drugs (CPD)
Heroin
Methamphetamine
Marijuana
What are CPDs?
Pain relievers
Tranquilizers
Stimulants
Sedatives
What kind of drug is heroin?
A central nervous system (CNS) depressant that relieves pain and induces sleep.
What kind of drug is methamphetamine?
A stimulants that can be taken orally, smoked, injected, or snorted.
A significant problem across the country, and its availability continues to increase.
What is the most commonly used illicit drug in the U.S.?
Marijuana
Teaches that milder illicit drugs - such as marijuana - lead directly to experimentation with and an addiction to hard drugs such as crack cocaine and heroin.
Gateway theory
Five or more drinks in a row during the previous 2 weeks.
Binge drinking
When and What did the Harrison Act do?
-1914
- made buying, selling, or using certain drugs illegal.
What does ONDCP stand for?
Office of National Drug Control Policy
What was ONDCP principal purpose?
To establish policies, priorities, and objectives for the nation’s drug control program.
What is D.A.R.E.?
Drug Awareness Resistance Education
What are law enforcement strategies to deal with the drug problem?
Drug raid
Uncover operations
Improving intelligence
Surveillance
Arresting sellers & buyers
Dealers sell to all potential customers, eliminating only those suspected of being police or some other threat.
Open drug market
Dealers sell only to people they know or who are vouched for by other buyers.
Closed drug market
The rerouting of drugs from legally and medically necessary and authorized uses to uses that are illegal and typically neither medically authorized nor necessary.
Drug diversion
Occurs when a patient obtains controlled substances from multiple health care prescribers without the prescribers knowledge of the other prescriptions already acquired.
Doctor shopping
Comes down hard on crime; wages “war” on crime and drugs
Conservative crime control.
Emphasizes correctional policies and boarder social reform intended to expand opportunities for those “locked out” of the american dream; wages war on poverty and inequality of opportunity.
Liberal crime control
What are the differences of conservative camp and liberal camp?
Conservative camp= wages war on crime and drugs
Liberal camp= wages war on poverty and inequality of opportunity.
