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Chapter 5 substance abuse Flashcards

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What are Consciousness-Altering Drugs

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

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what is moral Panic

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

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what are moral entrepreneurs

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

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what are two levels that we deal with drugs

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

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5
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what does “drunken” behaviour dramatize

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

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

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

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What did Howard Becker say about Marijuana use

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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

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

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

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

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

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how were pre-modern attitudes towards drugs

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they were more accepting of male children drinking alcohol.

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why did drinking become less acceptable for woman

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

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how is drug use different in expressive and repressive religions

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

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

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

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Why did William Randolph rename Marihuana as “maeajuana”

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

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

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true

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what is nicotine

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

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

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men = 13.2 years lost
women = 14.5 years lost
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what is binge drinking and where is it a problem

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

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why is ‘binge eating” considered substance abuse

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

20
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what isn the most widely used drug in America

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marijuana

21
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why is Marijuana known as the “gateway drug”

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because it leads to harder drugs.

22
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what is adverse selectivity

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

23
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What are hallucinogens

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

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What is Cocaine

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A stimulant that gives a temporary illusion of power and energy

25
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why was cocaine “demonized” in the US

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

26
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What is the most commonly used injected drug in Canada

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Heroin

27
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What did Mullen and Hammersley find about giving up heroin

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

28
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what are three aspects of “drug community members”

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

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functionalists

30
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What is the theory of anomie

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

31
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What do symbolic interactionalist theories focus on

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

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what are symbolic interactionalists interested in

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

33
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what is the transition of a certain behaviour becoming immoral

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

34
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what are the first three phases of the medicalization of deviance

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  1. Definition - abuse of the drug
  2. Prospecting - interest in the medical community
  3. Claims making - medical community claims that the problem is social
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what are the last three stages od medicalization of deviance (after claiming the problem is social)

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  1. Legitimacy - the government defines it as a medical problem
  2. Institutionalization - laws prohibit the drug
  3. designation - stricter legal prohibition
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What do critical theorists believe and what do they ask

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they believe that substance abuse effects socio-economic groups differently

they ask who benefits from drug use and who is harmed

37
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what was enacted to control immigrant men and drugs

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drug legislation

38
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laws agains weed use in the US were aimed to control who?

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racial minorities

39
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what do feminist approachers believe about drug abuse

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

40
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what are facts about woman and drug abuse compared to men

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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

41
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what kind of drugs are more commonly taken my women

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tranquilizers and over-the-counter drugs

42
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what symbol empowered women after WW2

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Smoking cigarettes

43
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what are two facts about women and cigarettes

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

44
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what is legalizations

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taking state control of the drug and removing penalties for possession

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