exam 1 study guide

Question 1

What is the purpose of moral panic?

Answer 1

Moral panic serves to shape public perceptions, influence policy decisions, and uphold societal norms by amplifying fears and concerns about specific issues

Question 2

What is a ‘folk devil’ and some examples?

Answer 2

Mexicans are an example of folk devils.

Question 3

What was marijuana used for during the colonial times?

Answer 3

Medical uses for alleviating pain and for making hemp/fibers.

Question 4

What are the overall criteria for the DEA drug schedules?

Answer 4

Potential for abuse; Medical utlity

Question 5

What are the schedules for the various illicit substances?

Answer 5

Schedules 1: drugs with no medical use and high potential for abuse.
Schedule 2: drugs with little medical use and a high potential for abuse leading to psychological dependency.
Schedule 3: drugs with accepted medical use and less likely potential for abuse that may lead to low dependency.
Schedule 4: drugs with low potential for abuse and have an accepted medical use.
Schedule 5: drugs with the lowest potential for abuse and have an accepted medical use.

Question 6

Know the schedules for the various illicit substances discussed in class.

Answer 6

Schedule 1- Heroin/LSD/ Weed
Schedule 2- Adderall/Cocaine/Fentanyl
Schedule 3- Ketamine/Morphine
Schedule 4- Xanax/Ativan/Tramadol
Schedule 5- Lomotil/Atropine

Question 7

Know the ‘street’ names for various illicit substances discussed in class

Answer 7

Cannabis= Marijuana/ Weed
Opioids= Heroin (dope)/ Fentanyl
Stimulants= Uppers/ Cocaine/ Amphetamine (meth)
Hallucinogens= LSD/ PCP (angel juice)
Club drugs= Molly/ Roofies/ Special K

Question 8

What must psychoactive drugs do to have an impact on the body?

Answer 8

It must enter the bloodstream and cross the blood brain barrier.

Question 9

What is synergism?

Answer 9

The interaction of two or more factors or substances to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects

Question 10

What are the key neurotransmitters and receptors affected by psychoactive drugs?

Answer 10

Dopamine= cocaine
Serotonin= ecstasy
Glutamate= ketamine and pcp

Question 11

What does the effective dose and lethal dose ratio tell us about psychoactive drugs?

Answer 11

It gives an indicator of the lethal dosage of a drug

Question 12

Define drug abuse

Answer 12

Drug abuse is when someone is experiencing negative consequences due to repeated drug use.

Question 13

Define drug misuse:

Answer 13

Using prescription drugs for recreational purposes.

Question 14

Define dependency:

Answer 14

When finding, using, buying, and using drugs has become the central part of someone’s life.

Question 15

Define addiction:

Answer 15

a disease of the brain that causes compulsive drug-seeking and drug use regardless of the consequences.

Question 16

What is cross-tolerance?

Answer 16

Where someone has a tolerance to the same class of drugs.

Question 17

What is the most effective way to ingest a drug?

Answer 17

Intravenous injection

Question 18

What is the least effective way to ingest a drug?

Answer 18

Oral

Question 19

Know each class of drugs and be able to list an example of each.

Answer 19

Narcotics- morphine;

Question 20

Which drug is still allowed to be used in the Native American Church ceremony?

Answer 20

Peyote

Question 21

How has the THC content in weed changed over the years?

Answer 21

THC content changed by 10%

Question 22

How much marijuana must be consumed for it to have a lethal effect?

Answer 22

20,000 mg

Question 23

Explain addiction and drug use as a moral problem.

Question 24

Explain addiction and drug use as a health issue.

Answer 24

Drug addiction as a health issuse means that

Question 25

Know the theoretical explanations of drug use and identify them.

Question 26

Explain operant conditioning versus classical conditioning.

Question 27

Which theory of drug use states that the influence of parents, peers, and others is dependent on the developmental period of the individual? At which stage of development are parents more important?

Answer 27

Anker’s social learning theory (1998). Parents are important at a younger age.

Question 28

Which criminological theory addresses sentencing differences between crack cocaine and powder cocaine?

Question 29

In Merton’s adaptations which applies to drug users and which to drug dealers?

Answer 29

Drug users are often associated with ritualism. Drug dealers are often associated with innovation

Question 30

What are the major findings from the Criminology theory article by Shroeder and Ford (2012)?