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Slide one- Substance abuse Flashcards

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What is consciousness-altering drugs

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Change a person’s mental state and can lead to serious health risks

Ex. Alcohol, marijuana, coke and herion

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What are examples of consciousness-altering drugs

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cocaine, alcohol, herion, weed

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What are psychoactive drugs

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, when taken in or administered into one’s system, affect mental processes [memory, thinking and reasoning]

Ex. Perception, consciousness, cognition or mood and emotions

Ex. Caffeine, weed, alcohol

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What is moral panic

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Definied as being any popular controvery or dispute that provokes feelings and fears so intense they threaten the social order

pedophiles

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What does moral panic reveal

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It reveals aggravate social tensions that are hard to resolve because the usual subject matter is taboo

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What are the two things that defines the relationship between drugs and deviant behaviour

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socio-cultural and biochemical factors

  1. Socio-cultural
    * Bonding experience
    * Relief from stress
    * Sense of community
    * Allur of Rebelling

2.Biochemical
* Genetics
* Stage of Development
* Gender/ ethnicity

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How is intoxicated behaviour learned

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Behaviour after intoxication is a learned behaviour

Through cultural - some culture accepts alcohol

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Where and when are you most likely to consume drugs

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In the presence of others [encourages]

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Who describe the importance of how someone should first consume to marijuanna to fully appreciate it

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Howard Becker

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What were the steps to properly appreciate marijuana

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  • The drug must be made available

*A knowledgeable person must teach the newcomer how to properly use the drug

  • Knowledgeable person must explain how to detect and appreciateits physical effects
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What is drinking likely to promote

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drinking is more or less likely to promote violence, depending on situational characteristics

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What are men most likely to misjudge when it comes to drinking

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Men who drink in all-male environments are more likely to misjudge how much they have consumed, to get into fistfights, and to misjudge the criteria of problem drinking

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What are some factors that affect of the usage of alcohol

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gender, class, and race to produce deviant behaviour

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How can parents affect your relationship with alcohol

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exposure to substance abuse in childhood can lead to abuse in childhood as imitation of parents’ behaviour , reaction to childhood abuse, or to cope

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When (age)are people most likely to first try drugs, tobacco, or alcohol

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Most people try their first during during their teens years

Experimenting with legal and illegal drugs is usually seen as ‘just a phase’ of teenage development

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What is pseudo-adulthood

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maturity age [between 6-12 y/o]

Beginning with the entry into school and ending in the advent of puberty

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What were the pre-modern attitudes of durg and alcohol abuse

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Were more accepting of male children using alcohol

  • A shortage of jobs kept boys from working like men, leading to boys no longer being treated like men
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What did the access of alcohol for young children follow by

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changing of drinking into an essentially recreational activity, done outside the home

Introduction of stronger alcoholic beerages

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Was pre modern thought about women drinking alcohol the same for men

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with children, drinking became less acceptable for women due to sharp declines in real wages and the rise of ‘womenly virtue’

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What is Expressive religions

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Which have elaborate rituals and artificats

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Drugs have been more widely used by members of _____

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expressive religion

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Drugs are LESS often used in _____

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Repressive rel igions

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What is repressive religions

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Which rejects elaborate rituals and call for simplicity and modesty

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How has the mass medica boost circulation

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By raising fears about excessive drug use

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Who is William Randolph Hears “marihuana”

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renamed ‘marihuana’ as marujuana

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What is one reason why people smoke

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Because harmful effects are slow to show themselves

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Women are almost as _____ as man to smoke

[all the time, likely, never, very little]

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likely

28
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How do people view drug addiction now then back in history

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instead of viewing it as moral, they become more willing to support treatment and harm reduction programs

29
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What type of substance is nicotine

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it is a psychoactive substance that leads to many health problems

30
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What is the largest cause of preventable disease and death

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cigarette smoking

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What is third-hand smoking

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smoking particles that linger once second hand smoke has cleared [still harmful]

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How much of our lives do we lose when we smoke

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males and females lose an average 13.2 and 14.5 years of life

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What is binge drinking

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drinking far in ecess

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What is deviant drinking

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may either be heavy drinking in a moderate-drinking environment or light drinking in a heav-drinking environment

35
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What province has the highest per capita alcohol consumption

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Provinces with many single men and Native people have the highest per capita alcohol consumption

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What WAS the most widely-used ‘illicit’ [not anymore in Canada] drug in North america

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Marijuana

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What are the short/long term of effects marijuana

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sleepiness, reduced-short term memory, and paranoia

Long-term: Low testosterone and sperm counts for men, increased risk infertility for women, heightened cancer risk

38
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What is a gateway drug, and what do sciestist believe is the gateway drug

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It is a drug that leads to ‘harder’ drugs

Marijuanna

39
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What is the oldest drug known to humanity

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hallucinogens

40
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How much percentage of canadian uses coacaine

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less than 1 percents

41
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How can people push away heroin

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There must both be a push away from that culture and a pull towards a new culture

42
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What are deviant service centres

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arises as places where one can get the drug, the drug paraphernalia, and the knowledge necessary to a drug use lifestyle

43
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How do functionalist theories view drug and alcohol

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They fulfill an important social role

  • Drug use contribute to social cohesian, helping to maintain communities of drug users
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What is the social disorganization theory, what does it mention

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According to social disorganization theory, drug and alcohol abuse increases when institutions that usually use drug use are less effective

45
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What is the theory of anomie

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the cause of excessive drinking and other substances abuse lies in the conflict between values and institutions

46
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What are the characteristics of a capitalist society

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They make excess drug use neccesary for some, by retreating to drugs or alcohol, they are blamed for their own weakness and failure

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How do symbolic interactionist theories view drugs and alcohol

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Focuses on the social meanings people associate with alcohol and drug use and the labels they attach to those who use drugs

[stoner, addict, alcoholic]

does someone do more of drugs if there labelled this?

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What are symbolic interactionist interested in seeing in deviant behaviours and drug abuse

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They want to see what kinds of people are labelled deviant and why

Interested in the process by which society attaches moralistic conceptions to social behaviours [such as drinking]

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What is the last stage of of labelling in the eyes of a symbolic interactionist

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the last stage is called the medicalization of deviance

50
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Who is Sato, what theory does he fall under and what does he say about the six phases in the medicalization of deviance

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  1. Defnition: Alleged abuse of a drug
  2. Prospecting: Discovery and interest in the medical community
  3. Claims making: Increased claims by the medical community that the problem is social
  4. Legitimacy: Government definition of drug use as a medical problem
    5: Institutionalization: Emergence of lawws prohibiting drug
    6: Designation: stricter legal prohibition
51
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How do critical theoriest view alcohol and drug abuse

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affects socio-economic groups differently

They ask who benefits from drug use and who is harmed

52
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How do feminist few drug and alcohol bause

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patriarchy[male dominance]] controls how societies work. Women have more reason to use drugs, as a form of retreat

53
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Women are less likely to become alcholic or drug abusers, they are likely more _____ and ____ when they develop addictions

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disturbed and deviant

54
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What are the drug choices for women

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mostly prescirbed tranquilizers [treat anxiety out insomnia] and over-the-counter drugs

women are 2x more likely as men to be dependent on prescribed psychoactive medications

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How does the history of women’s smoking shows the importance of advertising and social status

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After ww2, cigarettes were advertised to women as symbols of sophistication and beauty

56
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How do deviant subcultures thrive

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their underground economics survive on the ability to traffic in illegal drugs; rates of drug import and production are relatively low though they have more than doubled since the 1990’s

57
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Effects of smoking

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Lifelong abstinence and avoidance of second- and third-hand smoke are the only proven ways to avoid harm from tobacco use

58
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How has the government taken action againse drug offences

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They will impose harsher and mandatory sentencing, Quebec government has stated that it will seek to ameliorate or skirt around costly changes mandated in the omnibus crime bill

59
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What does Decriminalization mean

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Removing from the Criminal Code laws against marijuana possession and use- that is, eliminating all current penalties

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What does legalization mean

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Taking state control of the sale of these substances, as well as removing penalties for possession and use

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While legalization and decriminalization are both forms of harm reduction, which one is better

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Legalization is better because it would erase a criminal drug trade and ensure safe drugs for consumers

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what is medicalization of deviance

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Process in which conditions and behaviours are labelled and treated as medical issues

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Difference of decriminalization and legalization

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Decriminalization: non-criminal responses [fines and warnings]

Legalization: Criminal sanctions are removed

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