Lecture 1: Introduction (Concepts of Drug Abuse)

Question 1

Critical Anti-Drug Laws In North America

How are mordern drug policies shaped by history?

Answer 1

• 1970 Controlled Substances Act (USA)
• 1996 Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CAN)

counterculture movements (moving towards more tolerant future)

Question 2

Drug Schedules

Answer 2

• the more you go up the more addictive the drug becomes
• legal drugs don’t fall on the scale
• bottom sort of like precursors/solvents (chemicals turned into drugs and sold on the streets)
• list of drugs that have various penalties associated with them

Question 3

WHAT IS A DRUG?

Answer 3

• not something part of your diet
• main effect (psychoactive drugs: distributed into brain and trigger effects)
• exogenously administered chemical

Question 4

What preconceptions might we have about drugs?

Answer 4

• Culturally based
• Socially based
• Different sources of information

Question 5

WHERE DO DRUGS COME FROM?

Answer 5

• naturally (plants)
• synthetic sources (prescription drugs)

Question 6

Who uses drugs?

Answer 6

• poor, rich, high and low IQ people use drugs (socioeconomics doesn’t discriminate people)

Question 7

Misusing