Exam 2 Flashcards
LSD
- used for religious experiences
- ergot fungus in moldy bread
- serotonin increase
- gangrene/hallucinations
Albert Hoffman 1930s
isolate LSD molecule
Leary
promoted LSD; harvard psychologist
synethesia
“a loud perfume”; mix wrong senses
lsd and chromosomal damage (2) and dependence (3)
- can mutate (mutagenic)
- interfere with embryos
- no physical dependence
- some psychological dependence
- bad trips from impurities
how many bad trips LSD
1/1,000
seriously bad trips
1/10,000
significance vs. typicality
x
genetic damage; in vitro vs. in vivo
-damage in vitro but non in vivo?
how does LSD work?
resembles molecular structure of serotonin
Why use
imbalance in neurotransmitters
- DRD1 & DRD2 Alleles (receptor defect)
- biological
- adoption studies (biological factor)
- single gene theory (false)
supply side theory
keep supply low for deterrence
sociological theories
- differential association - through interactions, people learn criminal behavior (Sutherland)
- anomie - lack of usual standards (merton)
- labeling (secondary deviants;Mead)
- social bond theory (hirschi)
4 compartments of social control/bond
- attachment
- commitment
- involvement
- belief
psychological theories of drug use (2)
- low self-control
- Freudian psych (trauma/oral stage problems)
what are drug defined crimes?
social construction of drugs and uses
ancillary crime
drug-related/on drug crimes (ex: robbing and aggression b/c of alcohol)
Paul Goldstein
tripartite model of drug crime
tripartite model of crime (3 elements and person)
Goldstein
- economically compulsive crimes
- criminal career of drug users
- lambda and its variation
what is lambda
frequency of crime committed over time
high for drug users, low for criminals
street culture
life = party
reckless spending
2 types of systematic crime
- turf - territory
- retaliation - discipline
psychopharmacological violence/crime drugs
alcohol, meth, coke, pcp, maybe heroine
concentrated vs. cottage industry (freelance)
cottage industry - individual sellers concentrated - cartels and dealers -episodic involvement -driven by use -frequency, periodocity, self-perception
why are drug dealers bad
competition and robbing
drugs first, then crime is attributed to what drug?
alcohol
predispositional model
crime, then drugs (not as accurate)
intensification model
crime, drug, then more crime (tripartite)
mass incarceration
lock up majority of drug users; constant need for prisoners
prison industrial complex
people are making money off private prison
Drug war
- price is stable
- pure drugs
- availability of different drugs
- market expansion (black market)
- drug market violence (displacement)
- the more your clamp down, the more will pop up (grease fire)
endogenous stopping
quit b/c tired, not b/c fear of prison
chemicalistic fallacy
“one you use it you’re hooked”
form of self medication
pharmaceutical companies lose out