Contemporary Social Issues
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This course explores a range of pressing social issues shaping modern societies, examining topics such as inequality, discrimination, migration, urbanization, environmental challenges, and changes in family structures. Through an interdisciplinary approach, students will investigate the root causes, consequences, and potential solutions to these issues, drawing on perspectives from sociology, political science, economics, and cultural studies. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking, analysis of current events, and understanding the interconnectedness of global and local dynamics, preparing students to engage thoughtfully and actively in addressing the complex challenges facing contemporary communities.
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Drugs in American Society 9th Edition by Erich Goode
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Chapter 1: A History of Drug Use
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Q1) During national alcohol Prohibition (1920-1933),alcohol consumption in the United States:
A) increased
B) decreased
C) fluctuated wildly and randomly from year to year
D) cannot be estimated by researchers
E) none of the above
Answer: B
Q2) The drug that is consumed the greatest number of times in the U.S.is:
A) alcohol
B) the nicotine in tobacco
C) the prescription amphetamines
D) the prescription narcotics
E) none of the above
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: A History of Drug Control
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Q1) Which of the following drugs was included in the Harrison Act yet was not a narcotic or opiate?
A) heroin
B) marijuana
C) morphine
D) amphetamine
E) cocaine
Answer: E
Q2) Which comes first-the chicken or the egg? We see a time-ordered relationship between the use of psychoactive substances,both legal and illegal,and public opinion favoring drug legislation.Which is the cause-the use,or public opinion favoring more restrictive legislation? Justify your argument.
Answer: Answers will vary
Q3) The following development did not take place in the nineteenth-century:
A) the extraction of morphine from opium
B) the extraction of heroin from morphine
C) the invention of the hypodermic syringe
D) the isolation of cocaine from coca leaves
E) the discovery of the addicting properties of opiates
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: The Pharmacological Perspective
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Q1) Which of the following drugs is synergistic with Seconal,a barbiturate?
A) alcohol
B) marijuana
C) heroin
D) LSD
E) cocaine
Answer: A
Q2) Psychopharmacologists classify OxyContin as a/n:
A) euphoriant
B) depressant
C) disassociative anesthetic
D) hallucinogen
E) analgesic
Answer: E
Q3) Years of Potential Life Lost (YPLL)is an important consideration when assessing the harm or damage that a drug inflicts on its users and the user's peers.Weigh the relative harm that tobacco and alcohol inflict,in the light of YPLL.Do the same for the legal drugs versus the illegal drugs.Does the factor of YPLL significantly change our previous estimates of the picture of drug harm?
Answer: Answers will vary
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Chapter 4: The Sociologist Looks at Drug Use
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Q1) The substance that causes the greatest total harm with respect to death and disease is:
A) tobacco
B) alcohol
C) heroin
D) cocaine
E) prescription drugs
Q2) Chronic,abusive cocaine and heroin use is most likely to:
A) be concentrated the inner cities.
B) take place in the suburbs.
C) take place in rural areas.
D) be randomly throughout the United States.
E) none of the above.
Q3) A Schedule I drug is one that the government defines as having:
A) medical utility and a low potential for abuse
B) no medical utility but a low potential for abuse
C) medical utility but a high potential for abuse
D) no medical utility and a high potential for abuse
E) none of the above
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Chapter 5: Drugs in the Media
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Q1) News stories in the 1960s about the harm caused by the use of LSD:
A) reported consistently throughout the decade about only one harm the use of the drug caused-insanity and self-destruction
B) reported consistently throughout the decade about only one harm the use of the drug caused-chromosome damage
C) began by focusing its reporting mainly on one harm the use of the drug caused (insanity and self-destruction),but switched its attention to a second harm (chromosome damage)
D) was unfocused and all over the map with regard to the harm the use of the drug caused-from addiction to overdoses to progression to more dangerous drugs
E) none of the above
Q2) The year the American public most strongly believed that drug abuse was the nation's number one problem was:
A) 1959
B) 1969
C) 1979
D) 1989
E) 1999
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Chapter 6: Studying Drug Use
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Q1) The samples of all of these data sources are huge,numbering in each case in the thousands.Would the data be as useful if their samples were smaller,say,just a few hundred? Explain why or why not.Several of these data sources are drawn exclusively from metropolitan areas,which means they do not represent-they are not a cross-section of-the American population as a whole.Does this limitation restrict their utility? Why or why not?
Q2) The drug or drug type most likely to be associated with the number of emergency department visits that take place in the U.S.in recent years is:
A) methamphetamine
B) PCP
C) MDMA (Ecstasy)
D) opiates/narcotics
E) LSD
Q3) The drug of choice among-the drug most likely to be used by-arrestees is:
A) methamphetamine
B) cocaine
C) opiates
D) marijuana
E) oxycodone
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Chapter 7: Explaining Drug Use
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Q1) The social control theory of deviance,crime,and illicit drug use focuses on the following factor:
A) socialization into deviant values
B) hegemony by the powerful to shape laws and social control to their advantage
C) the actor's stake in conformity
D) the disjunction between the goal of success and the legitimacy of the means to achieve that success
E) the recent decay of the American economic structure,which reduces the likelihood of social mobility for people at the bottom of the socioeconomic hierarchy
Q2) Which of the following theories emphasizes deviant socialization as the major explanation for deviance,crime,delinquency,and drug abuse?
A) social control theory
B) self-control theory
C) social learning and subculture theory
D) anomie theory
E) social disorganization theory
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Chapter 8: Legal Drugs: Alcohol and Tobacco
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Q1) Between 1963 and today,the per capita consumption of cigarettes in the U.S.population (age 18 and older):
A) has increased B) has decreased C) has remained stable
D) has fluctuated wildly and randomly from year to year E) remains unknown
Q2) "Apparent" alcohol consumption is based on:
A) Alcohol sales during a given year.
B) How much alcohol the public believes is consumed during a given year.
C) How much alcohol a respondent thinks he or she has consumed during a given year.
D) The relationship between drinking and BAC (blood-alcohol concentration).
E) Underage drinking during a given year.
Q3) Some countries have much higher rates of alcohol-related violence than others.Why in some countries is the consumption of alcohol related to violent behavior,while the drinking that takes place in other countries is much less frequently accompanied by violence?
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Chapter 9: Prescription Drugs
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Q1) In the 1960s,the barbiturates were a widely-prescribed sedative-hypnotic; today,they are much less commonly prescribed.Why?
A) they have harmful side effects
B) they are not effective as sedatives
C) they are not effective as hypnotics
D) they are still widely prescription,though in generic rather than brand-name form
E) they are actually safe and effective,but they received damaging media attention discouraged physicians from prescribing them
Q2) For the most part,this chapter does not discuss the use of substances that are not psychoactive.About what proportion of prescription drugs are psychoactive?
A) zero percent
B) a minority,though a substantial minority-roughly one out of five,or 20 percent
C) roughly half (50%)
D) the substantial majority,though not all-roughly 80 percent
E) 100 percent-all are psychoactive
Q3) Which of the pharmaceuticals became recreational drugs? Which did not? Why?
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Chapter 10: Marijuana, Lsd, and Club Drugs
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Q1) The social characteristic that correlates most strongly with the use of marijuana is:
A) sex or gender
B) age
C) socioeconomic status (SES)
D) geographical residence
E) race
Q2) Psychopharmacologists classify ketamine as a:
A) benzodiazepine-a sedative/hypnotic
B) narcotic
C) disassociative anesthetic
D) stimulant
E) none of the above
Q3) The most efficient and effective route of administration of marijuana is:
A) injecting it in an oil-based infusion
B) smoking it
C) eating it in a brownie
D) drinking it brewed as a tea
E) ingesting it in pill form
Q4) Explain why LSD is rarely used on a frequent,compulsive basis.
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Chapter 11: Stimulants: Amphetamine, Methamphetamine, Cocaine, and Crack
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Q1) Why do you think the use of methamphetamine is as regionalized as it is? Why is use of meth so much higher on the West coast than it is in the East? What factors or forces account for this extremely strong concentration with respect to geographic area of the country?
Q2) Do the different data sources at our disposal (ADAM-II,DAWN,MTF,NSDUH,etc.)say more or less the same thing with respect to stimulant use? Or does each paint a somewhat different portrait of drug use and abuse in the United States at a given time?
Q3) What are the factors that make cocaine as popular a drug as it is? What other factors do you think keep the appeal,and the use,of cocaine in check?
Q4) Late in the nineteenth-century,Sigmund Freud,the "father" of psychoanalysis,wrote about and abused which of the following drugs?
A) amphetamine
B) methamphetamine
C) cocaine
D) crack
E) none of the above
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Chapter 12: Heroin and the Narcotics
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Q1) Compared with most of the other drugs,the margin between the ED and LD for narcotics is:
A) wide
B) narrow
C) the same
D) unknown
E) none of the above
Q2) Which of the following is used by a greater number of people-heroin versus all of the other narcotics added together?
A) Heroin.
B) All the other narcotics added together.
C) The two categories are used by about the same number of people.
D) This question cannot be answered; the answer is unknown.
E) none of the above
Q3) What distinguishes controlled narcotic users from compulsive narcotic users,addicts and abusers? How do controlled users avoid addiction? What are some tactics that might distinguish them-but don't?
Q4) If you could press a button and magically make all the narcotics on Earth disappear,would you do it? Why or why not? Justify your answer.
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Chapter 13: Trafficking in Illicit Drugs
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Q1) Evidence indicates that the link between the consumption of alcohol and engaging in violent behavior is largely and substantially a result of:
A) disinhibition caused by the pharmacological effects of alcohol
B) cultural norms,not the pharmacological effects of alcohol
C) cognitive guidedness
D) unknown factors
E) none of the above
Q2) Drug researchers have proposed three models of the nexus between drug use and violent behavior.What are they and which seems most adequate today?
Q3) Drug researchers have proposed three models or explanations for the drug-crime nexus.Which one is the most adequate in explaining this link?
A) the enslavement model
B) the predisposition model
C) the intensification model
D) All are equally adequate in explaining this link.
E) All are equally inadequate in explaining this link.
Q4) What is the role of cocaine in violent behavior?
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Chapter 14: Law Enforcement, Drug Courts, and Drug Treatment
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Q1) What two factors are absolutely necessary to drug use and abuse? Are they sufficient,each by itself? Explain.
Q2) In order for drug use to take place,the predisposition to use a given drug is:
A) a necessary but not a sufficient condition
B) a sufficient but not a necessary condition
C) both a necessary and a sufficient condition
D) neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition
E) none of the above
Q3) Since most drug "kingpins" are rich,how does poverty contribute to illicit drug distribution-from the source to the seller-to-user dealer?
Q4) According to available,reliable information,over the past few decades the:
A) purity of cocaine has increased and its price has declined B) purity of cocaine has increased and its price has increased
C) purity of cocaine has decreased and its price has increased
D) purity of cocaine has decreased and its price has decreased
E) none of the above
Q5) Which drugs are most likely to be produced within the borders of the United States? Why?
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Chapter 15: Law Enforcement, Drug Courts, and Drug Treatment
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Q1) In the past several decades:
A) both the crime rate and the number of persons incarcerated in prison have increased.
B) the crime rate has increased,but the number of persons incarcerated in prison has decreased.
C) the crime rate has decreased,but the number of persons incarcerated in prison has increased.
D) both the crime rate and the number of persons incarcerated in prison have decreased.
E) none of the above.
Q2) Some observers argue that the passage and enforcement of the American drug laws have "worked" to control drug abuse in the United States,while others have argued that they have been a clear-cut failure.Cite evidence on both sides of the argument.Which side seems to you to be a stronger argument? What does that imply for current and future drug policy?
Q3) Should methadone be administered to all narcotic addicts? Why or why not?
Q4) Regardless of the evidence supporting one or the other side of this argument,what do you think will be the actual drug control policy during the coming decade or two?
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Chapter 16: Legalization, Decriminalization, and Harm Reduction
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Q1) Drug legalization:
A) represents a single proposal: remove all criminal penalties on the possession and distribution of all currently illegal drugs
B) is likely to be instituted for all the currently illicit drugs within the present decade
C) is the drug policy that prevails in all countries of Europe
D) is not,according to Drugs in American Society,a serious proposal; it has no hope of implementation at any time in the foreseeable future
E) none of the above
Q2) The drug control policy that prevails in the Netherlands and Switzerland is:
A) full legalization
B) full decriminalization
C) harm reduction
D) a full prohibitionist and punitive policy
E) none of the above
Q3) Describe the "drug war ideology."
Q4) Summarize the four main proposals to reform the drug laws.
Q5) What factors limit law enforcement's capacity to eradicate drug use and distribution?
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