Historical Perspective

Question 1

About how long have drugs been available to people?

Answer 1

Thousands of years

Question 2

In recent history, people have been able to make drugs with greater ___ and ___.

Answer 2

Purity

Quantity

Question 3

Alcohol was originally created from naturally ____ ____.

Answer 3

Fermenting fruit

Question 4

What is considered to be the oldest drug of abuse?

Answer 4

Alcohol

Question 5

Opioids are derivatives of what plant?

Answer 5

Opium poppy

Question 6

Morphine is a synthetic variant of ___ and is used as a ___.

Answer 6

Opium

Painkiller

Question 7

Heroin is a synthetic variant of ___.

Answer 7

Morphine

Question 8

What two drugs were originally marketed as panaceas (around the late 1800s)?

Answer 8

Heroin

Cocaine

Question 9

Cocaine is derived from the ____ of the ____ plant.

Answer 9

Leaves

Coca

Question 10

What 4 drugs (or their natural precursors) have been used for thousands of years?

Answer 10

Alcohol
Opium
Cocaine
Marijuana

Question 11

The word “addiction” comes from the Latin word for ___.

Answer 11

Devotion

Question 12

What are 4 views of addiction?

Answer 12

Moral view
Criminal view
Supernatural view
Illness view

Question 13

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?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

The criminal view of addiction says that drug use produces ___ ___. What is the solution to drug use in this view?

Answer 14

Societal ills

Solution is to punish drug users and ban drug usage

Question 15

The supernatural view of addiction cites what as the cause of drug use?

Answer 15

Supernatural influences (i.e. “evil spirits”)

Question 16

The illness view of addiction seeks to handle addiction how?

Answer 16

Medically treat drug addicts

Question 17

Who was considered to be the father of American psychiatry? Which of the 4 views of addiction did he promote?

Answer 17

Benjamin Rush

Illness view of addiction

Question 18

What was the first place to treat alcoholism as a mental disorder?

Answer 18

NY State Inebriate Asylum

Question 19

Since the ____ (decade), drug use has been (increasing/decreasing) based on what has been reported in government surveys.

Answer 19

1970s

Decreasing

Question 20

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).

Answer 20

Flatlining

Increasing

Question 21

What effect has the war on drugs had on drug use itself? What has increased since the war on drugs began?

Answer 21

Little to no effect

Incarceration rates