Drugs and Crime Flashcards
Any substance other than food affects structure or function of body or mind is a
Drug
Substance that affects mental processes
Psychoactive
Manufacturing, sale, and procession is illegal under American law. -heroine
Illicit drug
Drugs that are legal
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Licit drug
Condition which individual feels compulsive need to take a drug. Drug controls the persons life
Drug dependence
Motivation for taking drug for specific purpose other than getting high
Instrumental use
Drug for medicinal purposes
Recreational
Drug taking behavior resulting in form of physical and mental impairment
Drug abuse
Prescription or no prescription used improperly
Drug misuse
Harm a drug might present the user
Drug toxicity
Harm a drug might present user soon after drug is ingested
Acute toxicity
Quantity of drug taken, milligrams micrograms
Dose
Curve is S shaped graph showing increasing probability of certain effects as dose level rises
Dose response
Minimal dose of drug necessary to produce intended effect in a percentage of population
Effective dose
Minimal dose of a drug capable of producing death in a percentage of the population
Lethal dose
Measure of drugs relative safety use - ratio of lethal dose for 50% of population over affective dose
Therapeutic index
Lethal dose 1% of population to effective dose for 99% of population
Margins of safety
Drug Abuse Warning Network- federal program which hospitals report the income of drug related emergencies
DAWN Reports
Business responsible for manufacturing and distribution and sale of illicit drugs
Global illicit drug trade
Annual overview of developments in drug market
World drug report
14% of Americans use this drug
Marijuana
Southeast Asia dominate the source of heroine production
Golden triangle
Southwest Asia currently the source of heroine
Golden Crescent
3rd largest producer of heroine is
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4th largest source of heroine is
South America
Source of cocoa found in rainforests in South America
Cocoa shrub
Colombia based cartels operated thru Bolivia, Peru, Honduras, and U.S. In 70s and 80s
Medeline Cali Cartels
Mexico is major source of
Marijuana
Marijuana is produced in
Mountainous areas
Crystal powder composed of ephedrine and pseudo-ephedrine
Meth
Hallucinogen which is white odorless substance
LSD
Drug used as anesthetic
Phencyclidine -pcp-
Traffickers influence policies of govt or society thru violence hinder enforcement of anti drug laws
Narcoterrorism
Operate without specific allegiances
Transitional narcoterrorism
800 prescriptions for ailments
Ebyrs-papryus
Use of morphine and a syringe
Medical advances
Cocaine was used in
Soft drinks and to help combat colds
Relaxed public opinion no agencies to monitor medical professional separation of church and state and federal powers
Laissez-faire attitude
Advocate of renunciation of alcohol consumption 1820s
Temperance movement
Property medicine mace and marketed under patent and available with no prescription
Patent medicine
requires all packed food and drugs to list ingredients on label
Pure Food and Drug Act 1996
Special tax placed on all persons who produce import make and deal and sell opium and cocoa
Harrison Narcotic Act
Outlawed production and sale of alcohol
18 amendment
Carried out intent of 18th Amendment under US dept treasury
Volsteadt Act
Federal organization tasked to enforce Harrison Act
Federal Bureau of Narcotics
Tax on buyers sellers importers growers physicians and any other persons dealing marijuana prescribed professionally
Marijuana Tax Act