Chapter 5 substance abuse

Question 1

What are Consciousness-Altering Drugs

Answer 1

Drugs that change a persons mental state, can lead to serious health risks
ex.alcohol, weed, cocaine, and heroine

Question 2

what is moral Panic

Answer 2

when there is controversy or disputes in society that threaten social order

Question 3

what are moral entrepreneurs

Answer 3

people who use media and public to make big claims about issues (drugs)

Question 4

what are two levels that we deal with drugs

Answer 4

socio-cultural (social) level and biochemical (how it actually impacts the brain) level

Question 5

what does “drunken” behaviour dramatize

Answer 5

it dramatizes out understanding of the socio-cultural role in consumption

Question 6

what is the importance of place when it cams to drug abuce

Answer 6

social factors like the environment you are in and the people you are with all play a role in likelihoods of consuming drugs.

Question 7

What did Howard Becker say about Marijuana use

Answer 7

He said that to smoke weed, the drug has to be “available,” the person has to be taught how to use it, and the person has to be taught how to detect/appreciate its physical effects

Question 8

what is a fact on men and drinking in groups (of men)

Answer 8

men who drink in all male environments are more likely to become aggressive, engage in fistfights, and have misjudgements

Question 9

when are people most likely to try drugs, tobacco, or alcohol

Answer 9

during their teen years, it is seen as a “phase” in development

Question 10

how were pre-modern attitudes towards drugs

Answer 10

they were more accepting of male children drinking alcohol.

Question 11

why did drinking become less acceptable for woman

Answer 11

because they had to maintain a social standard that drinking would ruin.

Question 12

how is drug use different in expressive and repressive religions

Answer 12

expressive religions are more accepting encase they sometimes incorporate alcohol in the religion, but repressive religions don’t accept it.

Question 13

how were racial minorities represented in media when it comes to drugs

Answer 13

they were seen as savages who seduced youths into drug use lifestyles

Question 14

Why did William Randolph rename Marihuana as “maeajuana”

Answer 14

to highlight the strong cultural connection between the drug and americas Mexican minority population

Question 15

true or false, women are more likely to smoke than men

Answer 15

true

Question 16

what is nicotine

Answer 16

(psychoactive) a drug in tobacco that leads to light headedness and stress relief

Question 17

how many years of life do men and women loose from smoking

Answer 17

men = 13.2 years lost
women = 14.5 years lost

Question 18

what is binge drinking and where is it a problem

Answer 18

drinking far in excess (drinking at unusual times or unusual places)
it is a problem on college campuses

Question 19

why is ‘binge eating” considered substance abuse

Answer 19

because your abusing high calorie foods, which can be an addictive substance (food)

Question 20

what isn the most widely used drug in America

Answer 20

marijuana

Question 21

why is Marijuana known as the “gateway drug”

Answer 21

because it leads to harder drugs.

Question 22

what is adverse selectivity

Answer 22

when somebody’s brain is prone to feel good doing drugs, they are more likely to keep doing it or do other drugs

Question 23

What are hallucinogens

Answer 23

psychoactive drugs that change your consciousness like dream states, trances, and meditation.
Oldest drugs in humanity

Question 24

What is Cocaine

Answer 24

A stimulant that gives a temporary illusion of power and energy

Question 25

why was cocaine "demonized" in the US

Answer 25

because it was associated with black culture, who were already seen as dangerous. Urban blacks were the first main users

Question 26

What is the most commonly used injected drug in Canada

Answer 26

Heroin

Question 27

What did Mullen and Hammersley find about giving up heroin

Answer 27

that it takes repeated tries an treatments, there must be a push away from that culture and a pull toward a new culture

Question 28

what are three aspects of "drug community members"

Answer 28

1. have dangerous and unusual lives 2. develop terminology, practices, underground systems 3. the harder the drug is to get or dangerous, the more restrictive and mysterious the member is

Question 29

what theorist (group) believes that drug abuse is common because they fill an important social role and contribute to social cohesion

Answer 29

functionalists

Question 30

What is the theory of anomie

Answer 30

that the cause of substance abuse is due to conflict between values and institutions

Question 31

What do symbolic interactionalist theories focus on

Answer 31

they focus on the social meanings people associate with substance abuse and the labels they attach to those who use it

Question 32

what are symbolic interactionalists interested in

Answer 32

Seeing what kids of people are labeled deviant when drinking and why, and the process where society attaches moralistic conceptions to drinking

Question 33

what is the transition of a certain behaviour becoming immoral

Answer 33

first its considered immoral, then medical, then psychological, last stage is the "medicalization of deviance"

Question 34

what are the first three phases of the medicalization of deviance

Answer 34

1. Definition - abuse of the drug 2. Prospecting - interest in the medical community 3. Claims making - medical community claims that the problem is social

Question 35

what are the last three stages od medicalization of deviance (after claiming the problem is social)

Answer 35

4. Legitimacy - the government defines it as a medical problem 5. Institutionalization - laws prohibit the drug 6. designation - stricter legal prohibition

Question 36

What do critical theorists believe and what do they ask

Answer 36

they believe that substance abuse effects socio-economic groups differently they ask who benefits from drug use and who is harmed

Question 37

what was enacted to control immigrant men and drugs

Answer 37

drug legislation

Question 38

laws agains weed use in the US were aimed to control who?

Answer 38

racial minorities

Question 39

what do feminist approachers believe about drug abuse

Answer 39

that since Patriarchy (male dominance) controls society, women have a reason to use drugs (form of retreat)

Question 40

what are facts about woman and drug abuse compared to men

Answer 40

that even though they are less likely to, when they become substance abusers, they are more deviant and they are looked on more poorly when addicted compared to men

Question 41

what kind of drugs are more commonly taken my women

Answer 41

tranquilizers and over-the-counter drugs

Question 42

what symbol empowered women after WW2

Answer 42

Smoking cigarettes

Question 43

what are two facts about women and cigarettes

Answer 43

they are more likely to smoke under emotional pressure and more likely to deal with anger/

Question 44

what is legalizations

Answer 44

taking state control of the drug and removing penalties for possession