exam 1 study guide Flashcards
What is the purpose of moral panic?
Moral panic serves to shape public perceptions, influence policy decisions, and uphold societal norms by amplifying fears and concerns about specific issues
What is a ‘folk devil’ and some examples?
Mexicans are an example of folk devils.
What was marijuana used for during the colonial times?
Medical uses for alleviating pain and for making hemp/fibers.
What are the overall criteria for the DEA drug schedules?
Potential for abuse; Medical utlity
What are the schedules for the various illicit substances?
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.
Know the schedules for the various illicit substances discussed in class.
Schedule 1- Heroin/LSD/ Weed
Schedule 2- Adderall/Cocaine/Fentanyl
Schedule 3- Ketamine/Morphine
Schedule 4- Xanax/Ativan/Tramadol
Schedule 5- Lomotil/Atropine
Know the ‘street’ names for various illicit substances discussed in class
Cannabis= Marijuana/ Weed
Opioids= Heroin (dope)/ Fentanyl
Stimulants= Uppers/ Cocaine/ Amphetamine (meth)
Hallucinogens= LSD/ PCP (angel juice)
Club drugs= Molly/ Roofies/ Special K
What must psychoactive drugs do to have an impact on the body?
It must enter the bloodstream and cross the blood brain barrier.
What is synergism?
The interaction of two or more factors or substances to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects
What are the key neurotransmitters and receptors affected by psychoactive drugs?
Dopamine= cocaine
Serotonin= ecstasy
Glutamate= ketamine and pcp
What does the effective dose and lethal dose ratio tell us about psychoactive drugs?
It gives an indicator of the lethal dosage of a drug
Define drug abuse
Drug abuse is when someone is experiencing negative consequences due to repeated drug use.
Define drug misuse:
Using prescription drugs for recreational purposes.
Define dependency:
When finding, using, buying, and using drugs has become the central part of someone’s life.
Define addiction:
a disease of the brain that causes compulsive drug-seeking and drug use regardless of the consequences.
What is cross-tolerance?
Where someone has a tolerance to the same class of drugs.
What is the most effective way to ingest a drug?
Intravenous injection
What is the least effective way to ingest a drug?
Oral
Know each class of drugs and be able to list an example of each.
Narcotics- morphine;
Which drug is still allowed to be used in the Native American Church ceremony?
Peyote
How has the THC content in weed changed over the years?
THC content changed by 10%
How much marijuana must be consumed for it to have a lethal effect?
20,000 mg
Explain addiction and drug use as a moral problem.
Explain addiction and drug use as a health issue.
Drug addiction as a health issuse means that
Know the theoretical explanations of drug use and identify them.
Explain operant conditioning versus classical conditioning.
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?
Anker’s social learning theory (1998). Parents are important at a younger age.
Which criminological theory addresses sentencing differences between crack cocaine and powder cocaine?
In Merton’s adaptations which applies to drug users and which to drug dealers?
Drug users are often associated with ritualism. Drug dealers are often associated with innovation
What are the major findings from the Criminology theory article by Shroeder and Ford (2012)?
