Drugs and Society Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
This course examines the complex relationship between drugs and society, exploring how cultural, social, legal, and economic forces shape drug use and perceptions. Students will investigate the historical context of drug use, the impact of drug policy and regulation, and the social consequences for individuals and communities. Topics include licit and illicit substances, addiction, the role of media, public health approaches, and global drug trends. By critically analyzing contemporary debates and ethical considerations, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how drug issues intersect with broader societal dynamics.
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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) Which of the following drugs or drug types represent the most chemically miscellaneous group of substances?
A) the amphetamines
B) the narcotics
C) alcohol
D) club drugs
E) marijuana
Answer: D
Q2) Recent increases in overall drug use in the United States have taken place mainly in the consumption of which of the following drugs:
A) heroin
B) methamphetamine
C) cocaine
D) MDMA (Ecstasy)
E) marijuana
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: A History of Drug Control
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Q1) 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
Q2) Between the 1970s and the 1980s,the federal budget devoted to drug treatment: A) increased B) decreased C) remained stable
D) fluctuated wildly and randomly from year to year
E) unknown
Answer: B
Q3) Racism and ethnic prejudice played a role in the three most important pieces of anti-drug legislation passed during the twentieth century-the Harrison Act (1914),the Volstead Act (national alcohol prohibition)(1919),and the Marihuana Tax Act (1937).Describe what role race and/or ethnic prejudice played in the passage of each of these acts.
Answer: Answers will vary
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Chapter 3: The Pharmacological Perspective
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Q1) An example of a "chronic" effect of a drug would be:
A) getting high or intoxicated
B) ataxia,or motor discoordination
C) dying of an overdose
D) cirrhosis of the liver
E) none of the above
Answer: D
Q2) Drug "effects":
A) are the same as drug "actions"
B) are highly specific and constant
C) are nonspecific and variable
D) are as predictable as mixing two chemicals in a lab
E) refer exclusively to biophysical reactions
Answer: C
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) In the United States,during the past half-dozen years,the abusive use of cocaine:
A) has increased B) has decreased
C) has remained the same
D) has fluctuated wildly and randomly from year to year
E) remains completely unknown
Q3) Taking LSD to get high is an example of:
A) illegal recreational use
B) legal recreational use
C) illegal instrumental use
D) legal instrumental use
E) none of the above
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Chapter 5: Drugs in the Media
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Q1) Media stories on the use of PCP in the 1970s tended to emphasize that the use of the drug would cause the user to:
A) die of a drug overdose.
B) progress to more dangerous drugs.
C) engage in multiple drug use and harm himself or herself as a result.
D) have psychotic episodes and engage in self-destructive behavior.
E) none of the above
Q2) The year that drug use was most frequently in the news was:
A) 1956
B) 1966
C) 1976
D) 1986
E) 1996
Q3) The effect caused by smoking crack cocaine in the 1980s that the media most emphasized was:
A) dying of an overdose of the drug
B) progressing to the use of other,more dangerous drugs
C) becoming addicted or dependent on the drug
D) becoming insane
E) using crack in conjunction with alcohol and becoming an alcoholic
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Chapter 6: Studying Drug Use
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Q1) 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
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) If you could design a study on drug use that would overcome whatever limitations or weaknesses that the available data sources have,what would this study entail?
Q4) If you were to present data on drug use to a legislature or legislative committee attempting to revise the drug laws,which data source or sources would you use? Why? Explain.
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Chapter 7: Explaining Drug Use
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Q1) 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
Q2) In the United States over the past four decades,income inequality-according to some theories,a major factor associated with deviance,crime,and drug abuse-has:
A) increased
B) deceased
C) remained the same
D) fluctuated wildly and erratically from year to year
E) none of the above
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Chapter 8: Legal Drugs: Alcohol and Tobacco
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Q1) What are the similarities and differences between the use of legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco and the use of illicit drugs such as marijuana and cocaine?
Q2) In the United States in the past 30 years or so,the number of alcohol-related fatalities,the percentage they constitute of all automobile fatalities,and the likelihood that they take place per million miles driven,have all substantially declined.Discuss the reasons why this has taken place.
Q3) Which of the following has the highest concentration of "absolute" alcohol?
A) beer
B) "fortified" wine (such as sherry)
C) wine
D) distilled spirits (such as gin,vodka,Tequila,or Scotch)
E) wine "coolers"
Q4) The tobacco plant is indigenous to which of the following continents or regions:
A) Australia
B) Europe
C) Africa
D) Asia
E) the Western Hemisphere
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Chapter 9: Prescription Drugs
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Q1) One of the most dramatic changes in the past half-century or so in psychiatric medication was the near-emptying out of mental hospitals.Describe what happened and why.
Q2) The change that took place in Question 14 was due to:
A) a mentally healthier population in the U.S.
B) a mentally less healthy population in the U.S.
C) an increase in the administration of anti-psychotic drugs
D) a decrease in the administration of anti-psychotic drugs
E) none of the above
Q3) Which of the following prescription drugs combats dysphoria?
A) sedatives
B) antidepressants
C) narcotics
D) hypnotics
E) tranquilizers
Q4) Aside from the control of pain and a cure for mental illness,using medicinal substances to alleviate anxiety probably has the most ancient history.Briefly summarize this history.
Q5) The story of pharmaceutical neuroleptics begins with the central nervous system.Tell that story.
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Chapter 10: Marijuana, Lsd, and Club Drugs
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Q1) The media mention club drugs such as Ecstasy,GHB,Rohypnol,and ketamine as a common and alarming cause of medical harm and even death.What does a more careful examination of the facts reveal? Cite information that indicates that club drugs are not as dangerous as the media claim.
Q2) Render a sociological portrait of the typical,modal,or most characteristic user of marijuana.
Q3) Enumerate some of the most characteristic indicators or measures of psychosocial unconventionality and discuss whether and how they correlate with recreational drug use,particular marijuana use.
Q4) No authors of texts on drug use have included marijuana in which of the following categories:
A) stimulant
B) narcotic
C) sedative
D) hallucinogen
E) Some writers have included marijuana as belonging in each of these categories
Q5) Is marijuana a dangerous drug? Assess the evidence on both sides of the argument.
Q6) 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) The high or intoxication resulting from smoking crack cocaine is:
A) longer and more intense than from snorting powder cocaine
B) shorter and more intense than from snorting powder cocaine
C) longer and less intense that from snorting powder cocaine
D) shorter and less intense than from snorting powder cocaine
E) none of the above
Q2) Stimulants:
A) speed up signals passing through the central nervous system (CNS)
B) slow down,retard,or obtund signals passing through the CNS
C) have no effect on the speed with which signals pass through the CNS
D) have an unknown-and unknowable-effect on the speed of signals passing through the CNS
E) none of the above
Q3) During the past decade or so,the use of methamphetamine has:
A) increased
B) decreased
C) remained stable
D) fluctuated wildly and randomly from year to year
E) remains unknown
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Chapter 12: Heroin and the Narcotics
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Q1) 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?
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) Though anomie theory regards the opiate addict as a "double failure" and a "retreatist," addicts are more likely to see themselves as purposeful,active,and resourceful-exactly the opposite image.Why do these two images differ so sharply? On what basis do addicts view themselves in such a positive fashion?
Q4) A high proportion of military personnel picked up a heroin habit during their wartime experience in Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s.What happened to them? Did they remain addicted? Did they seek treatment? Describe their trajectory from addiction to their subsequent return to the United States.Be as specific and detailed as you can.
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Chapter 13: Trafficking in Illicit Drugs
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Q1) The use of certain drugs is more "criminogenic" than that of others,that is,it is more closely related to criminal behavior.Which of the following are the "big three" drugs with respect to the relationship between using psychoactive substances and committing crime?
A) Ecstasy,GHB,and Rohypnol
B) marijuana,LSD,and tobacco
C) alcohol,cocaine,and narcotics
D) sedatives,hypnotics,and tranquilizers
E) anti-psychotics,antidepressants,and benzodiazepines
Q2) How have the explanations by drug researchers concerning the relationship between heroin addiction and violence evolved over time? What was the previous model and what is the current model? Why have these models changed?
Q3) Which of the following models most adequately explains the drugs/violence nexus?
A) the economic-compulsive model
B) the psychopharmacological model
C) the systemic model
D) All of these models are equally adequate in explaining this nexus.
E) All of these models are equally inadequate in explaining this nexus.
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) Since most drug "kingpins" are rich,how does poverty contribute to illicit drug distribution-from the source to the seller-to-user dealer?
Q2) Today,the majority of the illicit drugs brought into the United States from other countries originate from which of the following regions:
A) the Middle East
B) East Asia
C) the former Soviet Republics of Central Asia-Kazakhstan,Tajikistan,Kyrgyzstan,Uzbekistan,Turkmenistan
D) Latin America
E) there is no single region from which the majority of all illicit drugs in the U.S.originate
Q3) According to the thinking of contemporary economists:
A) All crime is economically productive
B) No crime is economically productive
C) Some crime is economically productive,while some is not,some may be negative in its economic impact
D) The economic impact of crime on a society is unknown and unknowable
E) none of the above
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Chapter 15: Law Enforcement, Drug Courts, and Drug Treatment
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Q1) In the short run,that is,after 2000,the "race to incarcerate" offenders of all crimes,and drug offenders specifically:
A) has accelerated B) has slowed down C) remains the same D) fluctuates wildly and erratically from year to year E) remains unknown,and unknowable
Q2) Drug courts:
A) sentence drug offenders to the maximum possible mandatory prison terms. B) are criminal courts that are instituted to penalize drug dealers. C) divert drug offenders into treatment programs. D) were set up to serve an unknown function. E) none of the above.
Q3) Has the recent abuse of the prescription narcotics added to the drug abuse problem or simply switched the abuse of one narcotic for another? Be detailed and specific in your answer.
Q4) Should methadone be administered to all narcotic addicts? Why or why not?
Q5) 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 dominant current approach to the control of illicit recreational drugs in the U.S.is: A) depenalization
B) legalization
C) prescription
D) prohibition
E) none of the above
Q3) Summarize the four modalities of drug treatment.
Q4) What factors limit law enforcement's capacity to eradicate drug use and distribution?
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