Chapter 8 Flashcards
Drug
Any chemical substance other than food water that affects the mind or body
Peyote
a hallucinogenic drug containing mescaline that is derived from the dried discoid tops of a cactus (Lophophora williamsii) and is used especially in the religious ceremonies of some American Indian peoples
Harrison act
National one restricting the sales cocaine and heroin
Why did immigration change the public view of alcohol
Cultural stereotypes linked alcohol with immigrants
Temperance movement
Social movement seeking to ban alcohol
18th amendment to the constitution
Outlaw the manufacture and sale of alcohol throughout the United States
Prohibition
Ban on alcohol
Prohibition try to solve the problem with alcohol I created a huge boost to organize crime
21st amendment
Feeling prohibition and bringing it into the field great experiments
Is the highest among people in there late teens
People Use drugs for the following reasons
Therapeutic, recreational, spiritual or psychological, escape, social conformity
Drug abuse
Refers to the use of any illegal substance use illegal substance in a way that violates accepted medical practice
Another definition-people who abused drug suffer physical and mental Social home
Addiction
Physical or psychological craving for a drug
Dependency
What state in which a persons body has adjusted to regular use of a drug
Stimulants
Drugs that increase alertness of wording a persons mood by increasing energy
Ex: Caffeine, nicotine vaping Ritalin and Adderall
Cigarette smoke as far and away the single greatest preventable cause of death
Depressants
Drugs that slow the operation of the central nervous system
Analgesics dull pain, opioids, sedatives, hypnotics, alcohol antipsychotics opposite of stimulants
Narcan
Nasal spray that deliverers naxolone Which can reverse the effects of opioids And prevent an overdose
Alcohol
More people become addicted to alcohol than any other drug-with the exception of nicotine
Alcohol contributes u
Unprotected sex
Putting them at risk for I’m going to pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases and impaired judgment
Hallucinogens
Still wants to meet with him in the pill capsule form that cause hallucinations
Hallucinogens can
Elevate pulse, blood pressure and alter perceptions of time and space Experience a good trip or a bad trip and flashbacks
Cannaibis
Marijuana and hashish
Marijuana and hashish
Help people to relax stimulate appetite but in higher doses can produce fatigue orientation paranoia and personality disorder
What states ban marijuana for medical and recreational use
Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska
Steroids
Androgen if promoting masculine characteristics
Anabolic building steroids
Steroids are used for
Improving strength and athletic performance also causes dangers from high blood pressure to liver tumors and people are contracted HIV due to Needles
prescription drugs
People use them in a non medical way by taking higher dosage’s
Mixing drugs
Most common abused prescription drugs
Painkillers, coding, diazepam oxycodone and hydrocodone
Drugs cause problems of family life how
Neglect family violence reduce inhibitions distort judgment and raise the risk of abusive behavior
Codependency
Behavior on the part of others that helps a substance abuser continue the abuse
Jacqueline wiseman
Studied wives of no alcoholics found that woman commonly experience problems ranging from income in certain to two violence
Homelessness
38% Of homeless men and women have a substance abuse problem
What problems do drugs and alcohol cause in society and family
Codependency, homelessness, health problems, prenatal exposure to drugs, HIV transmission, crime, poverty, terrorism
When was Ness results from under employment and lack of a
Narconomics
Economics of loss of human life
Outcome of national economics
Flax in Spanish Americans make up 76% of the people in federal prison for drug offenses
What are the four drug control strategies
Interdiction, Prosecution, treatment, education
Interdiction
Preventing the movement of drugs across the countries borders
Who participates in interdiction efforts
Drug enforcement administration, Customerservice, border patrol, US military
Prosecution
Putting drug dealers where they belong in jail
Fair sentencing act 2010
Reduced what had been an even greater disparity in the sentence is involved in crack and cocaine
What did Bill Wilson found
Alcoholics anonymous
Limitations of treatments for drugs and alcohol
Not enough treatment programs risk of relapse favoring prosecution over treatment
Joe prosecution and treatment
Examples of reactive policy that targets people after they used illegal drug
Education
Proactive policy aimed at discouraging people from using illegal drugs and they become involved
DARE
Most widespread drug addict education program where are police officers instructed the children on the dangers of drugs
Keeping it real program
Program aimed at drawing older students those middle school in high school and a discussion about personal responsibility drugs
Drug enforcement administration the DEA
Girl anti-drug organization that tries to keep other countries from producing illegal drugs and to keep drugs from entering the United States
Ronald Reagan said just say no to drugs
George W. Bush created the office of national drug control policy headed by William Bennett who became known as the drugs czar
The war on drugs has made things worse
Mass incarceration disrupt lives breaks a family is stigmatizes people lives in less likely to find jobs this pushes up future crime
Decriminalization
Reducing or removing severe criminal penalties that punished drug offenses especially personal use of drugs
Legalization of marijuana three benefits
Reduce risk for injury of deaths from bad drugs
Cost of legal drugs should go down reducing crimes
Society would no longer bear the cost of locking up as many convicted people
Taxing the sale of marijuana can provide states with needed revenue
Platzspitz
One of Zurich came to be known as needle park
Structural functionalism regulating drug isa
Suggest the drugs can be both helpful and harmful to the orderly operation of society Direct attention to the societal consequences of using various drugs
Symbolic interaction theory on drug use
Highlights the variable meanings people attached to all behavior including drug use aTatch various meanings to drugs and there used
Social conflict theory drug use
Link Society’s view of various drugs to issues of social power and social inequalities
Libertarians
Oh who favor the greatest possible individual freedom
Radical left view on drug problem
Drug laws reflect the interest of the powerful and criminalize poor people and minorities
Liberal view on drugs
Are use is a symptom of the suffering of many people from various problems I just poverty and powerlessness
Conservative view on drugs
Drug use is a symptom of poor marlin structure to young people communities and family should raise children with the moral values that will give them the strength to resist the temptation
Radical right libertarian views on drugs
Government threaten civil liberties by using police power to make a rest of his property
Soft drugs
That’s harmful than other drugs to include marijuana hash sleeping pills
