Historical Perspective Flashcards
About how long have drugs been available to people?
Thousands of years
In recent history, people have been able to make drugs with greater ___ and ___.
Purity
Quantity
Alcohol was originally created from naturally ____ ____.
Fermenting fruit
What is considered to be the oldest drug of abuse?
Alcohol
Opioids are derivatives of what plant?
Opium poppy
Morphine is a synthetic variant of ___ and is used as a ___.
Opium
Painkiller
Heroin is a synthetic variant of ___.
Morphine
What two drugs were originally marketed as panaceas (around the late 1800s)?
Heroin
Cocaine
Cocaine is derived from the ____ of the ____ plant.
Leaves
Coca
What 4 drugs (or their natural precursors) have been used for thousands of years?
Alcohol
Opium
Cocaine
Marijuana
The word “addiction” comes from the Latin word for ___.
Devotion
What are 4 views of addiction?
Moral view
Criminal view
Supernatural view
Illness view
The moral view of addiction says that the decision to use drugs is one of ____ choice. How is abstention or moderate use of drugs seen differently in this view from excessive drug use?
Personal
Abstention or moderate use is seen as morally good
Excessive use is seen as morally bad- drug users are seen as morally weak or corrupt people
The criminal view of addiction says that drug use produces ___ ___. What is the solution to drug use in this view?
Societal ills
Solution is to punish drug users and ban drug usage
The supernatural view of addiction cites what as the cause of drug use?
Supernatural influences (i.e. “evil spirits”)
The illness view of addiction seeks to handle addiction how?
Medically treat drug addicts
Who was considered to be the father of American psychiatry? Which of the 4 views of addiction did he promote?
Benjamin Rush
Illness view of addiction
What was the first place to treat alcoholism as a mental disorder?
NY State Inebriate Asylum
Since the ____ (decade), drug use has been (increasing/decreasing) based on what has been reported in government surveys.
1970s
Decreasing
In the past 50 years, the drug addiction rate has been (increasing/decreasing/flatlining), while the money spent on the war on drugs has been (increasing/decreasing/flatlining).
Flatlining
Increasing
What effect has the war on drugs had on drug use itself? What has increased since the war on drugs began?
Little to no effect
Incarceration rates
