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Course Introduction
Drugs and Society examines the complex relationship between drugs, individuals, and social structures. The course explores the historical, cultural, and political contexts of drug use, the social construction of legality and deviance, and the impact of drugs on public health and criminal justice systems. Topics include patterns of recreational and medicinal drug use, drug policy and regulation, addiction and treatment paradigms, and the influence of social and economic factors on drug-related behavior. Students will analyze case studies and contemporary debates to understand how drugs shape, and are shaped by, societal values and institutions.
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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) The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)does not include which of the following categories of the population in its sample:
A) teenagers
B) college students
C) residents of large urban areas
D) prisoners
E) the elderly
Answer: D
Q2) Researchers estimate that illicit drug use in the U.S.peaks at which of the following age brackets:
A) 16-17
B) 18-20
C) 21-25
D) 26-34
E) 35 and older
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: A History of Drug Control
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Q1) 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.
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Q2) The first psychoactive substance that American states attempted to control was:
A) opium
B) marijuana
C) heroin
D) alcohol
E) none of the above
Answer: D
Q3) An example of a current Schedule I drug,as defined by the federal Controlled Substances Act,is:
A) morphine
B) all of the amphetamines
C) cocaine
D) methadone
E) LSD
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) Which of the following drugs is most reinforcing,that is,the one that laboratory animals will work hardest to receive?
A) alcohol
B) cocaine
C) LSD
D) heroin
E) marijuana
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The Sociologist Looks at Drug Use
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Q1) The use and abuse of the artificial narcotics (such as fentanyl and oxycodone)is most likely to:
A) be concentrated in the inner cities.
B) take place in the suburbs.
C) take place in rural areas.
D) be randomly distributed throughout the United States.
E) none of the above.
Q2) The history of drug use may be divided into the natural era,the transformative era,and the synthetic era.Which of the following drugs was produced and first consumed during its natural era?
A) heroin
B) cocaine
C) opium
D) morphine
E) none of the above
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Chapter 5: Drugs in the Media
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Q1) The news stories that reported that LSD causes chromosome damage and result in the user passing on birth defects to his or her offspring was:
A) verified by research conducted in the 1960s
B) a complete media invention-no article published in the scientific literature reported such a finding
C) an urban legend that was circulated during the 1960s
D) disconfirmed by later scientific research
Q2) 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
Q3) Discuss the various claims that the media made regarding the effects of specific drugs between the 1930s and the 2000s which were factually incorrect.Why were these claims made,how were they corrected,and have they died down now that the factual record has been set straight regarding these drugs?
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Chapter 6: Studying Drug Use
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Q1) 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?
Q2) Which of the following data sources is drawn preponderantly or exclusively from surveys of 8<sup>th</sup>,10<sup>th</sup>,and 12<sup>th</sup> graders,as well as college students and non-college adults?
A) ADAM-II
B) DAWN
C) MTF
D) NSDUH
E) none of the above
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
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) 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
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Chapter 8: Legal Drugs: Alcohol and Tobacco
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Q1) Why do you think that such a strong relationship exists between the consumption of alcohol and being the victim of risky,deviant behavior?
Q2) The alcohol studies,the rule of equivalency is the principle that:
A) all people are influenced in the same way by a given quantity of alcohol
B) people are influenced equally by a given quantity of an alcoholic beverage-whether it is distilled spirits,wine,or beer
C) what counts in the effects of alcohol is determined by a given quantity of absolute alcohol consumed,other factors being equal,and not the quantity of the beverage consumed
D) mixing different kinds of drugs produces greater intoxication levels than sticking to the same kind of drink over a period of time
E) none of the above is the principle of equivalency
Q3) The correlation between drinking alcohol and illicit drug use is:
A) positive-drinkers are more likely to use illicit drugs than nondrinkers
B) negative-drinkers are less likely to use illicit drugs than nondrinkers
C) random-drinkers are equally as likely to use illicit drugs as nondrinkers
D) unknown and unknowable with any available data
E) none of the above
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Chapter 9: Prescription Drugs
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Which of the following prescription drugs does not produce a high,intoxication,or euphoric state?
A) narcotics
B) sedative-hypnotics
C) antipsychotics
D) barbiturates
E) All of the above produce a euphoric state.
Q3) Which of the following prescription drugs combats dysphoria?
A) sedatives
B) antidepressants
C) narcotics
D) hypnotics
E) tranquilizers
Q4) The story of pharmaceutical neuroleptics begins with the central nervous system.Tell that story.
Q5) 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) Which of the following drugs this text not include in the category of hallucinogenic/psychedelic drugs?
A) LSD
B) PCP
C) psilocybin
D) mescaline
E) DMT and DET
Q2) Do you think that the federal government and most of the states are justified in classifying most of the drugs that are discussed in this book (specifically marijuana,LSD,and Ecstasy)as Schedule I drugs? Justify your answer.
Q3) Render a sociological portrait of the typical,modal,or most characteristic user of marijuana.
Q4) Is marijuana a dangerous drug? Assess the evidence on both sides of the argument.
Q5) Explain why LSD is rarely used on a frequent,compulsive basis.
Q6) 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.
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Chapter 11: Stimulants: Amphetamine, Methamphetamine,
Cocaine, and Crack
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Q1) 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
Q2) 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?
Q3) Cocaine is a:
A) Schedule I drug
B) Schedule II drug
C) Schedule III drug
D) Schedule IV drug
E) Schedule V drug
Q4) Spell out some differences between the use of amphetamine pills and tablets and the IV injection of methamphetamine.
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Chapter 12: Heroin and the Narcotics
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Q1) Which of the following is not a narcotic drug?
A) oxycodone
B) opium
C) codeine
D) fentanyl
E) All are narcotic drugs.
Q2) 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?
Q3) In the United States,addiction to and abuse of drugs in generally,and narcotics specifically,has waxed and waned since the nineteenth century,with periods of much greater use alternating with periods of much less use.Can you imagine a time in the future when drug abuse,including addiction to the narcotics,simply declines to zero? Why or why not?
Q4) Given the maladies,harms,and dangers associated with narcotics,the question that non-users are likely to pose to persons who do use them is: Why use narcotics? Why turn on in the first place? Discuss the answer that users of narcotics give,knowing what you know from interview studies.
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Chapter 13: Trafficking in Illicit Drugs
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Q1) The relationship between committing a crime and being a victim of a crime is:
A) positive
B) negative
C) random
D) unknown
E) none of the above
Q2) 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.
Q3) What evidence suggests the limitations of the economic-compulsive or enslavement model and the predisposition models of the drugs-crime connection? Why is the intensification model a more adequate explanation for this connection?
Q4) 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?
Q5) 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) Some critics of the current drug policy believe that the government colludes with and protects drug dealers in order to keep the public "doped up," passive,and politically inactive,and that if the authorities were allowed to arrest and imprison the traffickers at the top of the distribution hierarchy,drug selling would be brought to a halt,and the drug trade would go out of business.Comment,making use of facts and details that are discussed in this chapter.
Q2) Which of the following corresponds most closely to the "mixed" model of illicit drug manufacture and sale?
A) Ecstasy (MDMA)
B) opium
C) marijuana
D) heroin
E) methamphetamine
Q3) Where do drugs come from? Experts have identified three "models" of drug production.What are they? How do they give us clues to the illicit drug production and distribution system? Do paths of drug distribution change over time? Why or why not? What determines where drugs come from and where they go?
Q4) 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) Alcohol is:
A) not mentioned anywhere in the Controlled Substances Act
B) classified as a Schedule I drug
C) classified as a Schedule II drug
D) classified as a Schedule III drug
E) none of the above
Q2) Evaluations of drug treatment programs have demonstrated a failure rate of:
A) zero percent-all programs are 100 percent effective
B) roughly 10-20 percent
C) roughly 50 percent
D) roughly 70-90 percent
E) 100 percent-no program successfully treats any of its patients
Q3) The black-white disparity rate of incarceration is:
A) greater for men than for women
B) greater for women than for men
C) the same for men and women
D) unknown-and unknowable
E) none of the above
Q4) Decades ago,the typical or most common narcotic addict was an urban minority male.How has the picture changed in the past ten years or so?
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Chapter 16: Legalization, Decriminalization, and Harm Reduction
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Q1) Does criminalization lower the demand of,and hence the use of,illicit drugs?
Q2) The Iron Law of Prohibition states that the stricter and more intense the enforcement of the laws against recreational drug use,the:
A) more popular a given prohibited drug will become B) less popular a given prohibited drug will become C) more potent the prohibited substance will become D) less potent the prohibited substance will become E) none of the above
Q3) The current system of criminalization is something of a hodge-podge of different laws and policies for different psychoactive drugs.Explain how,currently,different psychoactive substances are handled differently by the law and law enforcement.
Q4) What factors limit law enforcement's capacity to eradicate drug use and distribution?
Q5) What are the main fatal flaws in the current system of criminalization,according to legalizers?
Q6) Describe the "drug war ideology."
Q7) What are drug courts and how effective are they?
Q8) Summarize the four main proposals to reform the drug laws.
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