Chapter 7 – Alcohol & Other Drugs

Question 1

What drug started being used in prehistoric times?

Answer 1

Plants

Question 2

What was made of fermented honey and started being used in 8000 BCE?

Answer 2

Mead

Question 3

What drug started being used in 6000 BCE?

Answer 3

Beer & wine

Question 4

What drug did the Sumerians start using in 5000 BCE?

Answer 4

Opium

Question 5

What drug did the Ancient Egyptians start using 3500 BCE?

Answer 5

Alcohol

Question 6

What drug did the Chinese started using in 3000 BCE?

Answer 6

Cannabis

Question 7

How long have coco leaves been used?

Answer 7

thousands of years

Question 8

Who first used Tobacco?

Answer 8

Native Americans

Question 9

Tobacco was a major crop thanks to what?

Answer 9

Slave labor

Question 10

What drug was widely used in colonial America?

Answer 10

Alcohol

Question 11

What are 3 drugs legal in the latter 19th century that aren’t legal today?

Answer 11

Opium, marijuana, and cocaine

Question 12

What played a role in decisions to ban certain drugs in the late 19th and 20th century?

Answer 12

Racial prejudice

Question 13

What drug was banned because Chinese immigrants used them in bar/taverns?

Answer 13

Opium

Question 14

What drug was banned because white people thought black people who used it gained superpowers?

Answer 14

Cocaine

Question 15

What drug was banned when Mexicans started moving in?

Answer 15

Marijuana

Question 16

Do illegal drugs kill more than legal drugs?

Answer 16

Not even close

Question 17

What two drugs cause the most harm?

Answer 17

Alcohol & tobacco

Question 18

Almost as many americans die from painkillers as die from (legal/illegal) drugs?

Answer 18

illegal

Question 19

What is the reason why the distinction between legal and illegal drugs has no logical basis?

Answer 19

Legal drugs cause much more harm than illegal drugs.

Question 20

What is the correlation between gender and drug use?

Answer 20

Males more likely than females to use & abuse alcohol, tobacco, & illegal drugs.

Question 21

What racial group has the highest rate of alcohol use?

Answer 21

White

Question 22

What was the racial group with the highest rate of tobacco use?

Answer 22

Native American

Question 23

What is the racial group that has the highest rate of illegal drug use?

Answer 23

Native American

Question 24

What is the education level with the highest rate of alcohol use?

Answer 24

College graduate

Question 25

What is the education level with the highest rate of tobacco use?

Answer 25

High school dropout

Question 26

What theories assume that some people are especially vulnerable to drug addiction for genetic reasons?

Answer 26

Biological

Question 27

What theories assume that drug addiction results from certain personality traits & problems?

Answer 27

Psychological

Question 28

What says that drugs are positive reinforcers, making people more likely to engage in that behavior?

Answer 28

Operant conditioning

Question 29

What theories attribute drug use to various aspects of the social environment, including peer influences, weak social bonds, & the larger drug culture?

Answer 29

Sociological