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Drug

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Any chemical substance other than food water that affects the mind or body

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Peyote

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a hallucinogenic drug containing mescaline that is derived from the dried discoid tops of a cactus (Lophophora williamsii) and is used especially in the religious ceremonies of some American Indian peoples

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Harrison act

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National one restricting the sales cocaine and heroin

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Why did immigration change the public view of alcohol

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Cultural stereotypes linked alcohol with immigrants

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Temperance movement

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Social movement seeking to ban alcohol

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18th amendment to the constitution

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Outlaw the manufacture and sale of alcohol throughout the United States

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Prohibition

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Ban on alcohol

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Prohibition try to solve the problem with alcohol I created a huge boost to organize crime

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21st amendment

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Feeling prohibition and bringing it into the field great experiments

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Is the highest among people in there late teens

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People Use drugs for the following reasons

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Therapeutic, recreational, spiritual or psychological, escape, social conformity

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Drug abuse

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Refers to the use of any illegal substance use illegal substance in a way that violates accepted medical practice
Another definition-people who abused drug suffer physical and mental Social home

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Addiction

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Physical or psychological craving for a drug

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Dependency

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What state in which a persons body has adjusted to regular use of a drug

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Stimulants

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Drugs that increase alertness of wording a persons mood by increasing energy
Ex: Caffeine, nicotine vaping Ritalin and Adderall

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Cigarette smoke as far and away the single greatest preventable cause of death

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Depressants

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Drugs that slow the operation of the central nervous system

Analgesics dull pain, opioids, sedatives, hypnotics, alcohol antipsychotics opposite of stimulants

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Narcan

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Nasal spray that deliverers naxolone Which can reverse the effects of opioids And prevent an overdose

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Alcohol

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More people become addicted to alcohol than any other drug-with the exception of nicotine

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Alcohol contributes u

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Unprotected sex

Putting them at risk for I’m going to pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases and impaired judgment

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Hallucinogens

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Still wants to meet with him in the pill capsule form that cause hallucinations

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Hallucinogens can

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Elevate pulse, blood pressure and alter perceptions of time and space Experience a good trip or a bad trip and flashbacks

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Cannaibis

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Marijuana and hashish

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Marijuana and hashish

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Help people to relax stimulate appetite but in higher doses can produce fatigue orientation paranoia and personality disorder

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What states ban marijuana for medical and recreational use
Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska
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Steroids
Androgen if promoting masculine characteristics | Anabolic building steroids
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Steroids are used for
Improving strength and athletic performance also causes dangers from high blood pressure to liver tumors and people are contracted HIV due to Needles
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prescription drugs
People use them in a non medical way by taking higher dosage’s Mixing drugs
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Most common abused prescription drugs
Painkillers, coding, diazepam oxycodone and hydrocodone
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Drugs cause problems of family life how
Neglect family violence reduce inhibitions distort judgment and raise the risk of abusive behavior
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Codependency
Behavior on the part of others that helps a substance abuser continue the abuse
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Jacqueline wiseman
Studied wives of no alcoholics found that woman commonly experience problems ranging from income in certain to two violence
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Homelessness
38% Of homeless men and women have a substance abuse problem
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What problems do drugs and alcohol cause in society and family
Codependency, homelessness, health problems, prenatal exposure to drugs, HIV transmission, crime, poverty, terrorism
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When was Ness results from under employment and lack of a
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Narconomics
Economics of loss of human life | Outcome of national economics
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Flax in Spanish Americans make up 76% of the people in federal prison for drug offenses
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What are the four drug control strategies
Interdiction, Prosecution, treatment, education
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Interdiction
Preventing the movement of drugs across the countries borders
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Who participates in interdiction efforts
Drug enforcement administration, Customerservice, border patrol, US military
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Prosecution
Putting drug dealers where they belong in jail
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Fair sentencing act 2010
Reduced what had been an even greater disparity in the sentence is involved in crack and cocaine
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What did Bill Wilson found
Alcoholics anonymous
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Limitations of treatments for drugs and alcohol
Not enough treatment programs risk of relapse favoring prosecution over treatment
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Joe prosecution and treatment
Examples of reactive policy that targets people after they used illegal drug
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Education
Proactive policy aimed at discouraging people from using illegal drugs and they become involved
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DARE
Most widespread drug addict education program where are police officers instructed the children on the dangers of drugs
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Keeping it real program
Program aimed at drawing older students those middle school in high school and a discussion about personal responsibility drugs
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Drug enforcement administration the DEA
Girl anti-drug organization that tries to keep other countries from producing illegal drugs and to keep drugs from entering the United States
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Ronald Reagan said just say no to drugs
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George W. Bush created the office of national drug control policy headed by William Bennett who became known as the drugs czar
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The war on drugs has made things worse
Mass incarceration disrupt lives breaks a family is stigmatizes people lives in less likely to find jobs this pushes up future crime
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Decriminalization
Reducing or removing severe criminal penalties that punished drug offenses especially personal use of drugs
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Legalization of marijuana three benefits
Reduce risk for injury of deaths from bad drugs Cost of legal drugs should go down reducing crimes Society would no longer bear the cost of locking up as many convicted people Taxing the sale of marijuana can provide states with needed revenue
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Platzspitz
One of Zurich came to be known as needle park
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Structural functionalism regulating drug isa
Suggest the drugs can be both helpful and harmful to the orderly operation of society Direct attention to the societal consequences of using various drugs
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Symbolic interaction theory on drug use
Highlights the variable meanings people attached to all behavior including drug use aTatch various meanings to drugs and there used
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Social conflict theory drug use
Link Society’s view of various drugs to issues of social power and social inequalities
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Libertarians
Oh who favor the greatest possible individual freedom
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Radical left view on drug problem
Drug laws reflect the interest of the powerful and criminalize poor people and minorities
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Liberal view on drugs
Are use is a symptom of the suffering of many people from various problems I just poverty and powerlessness
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Conservative view on drugs
Drug use is a symptom of poor marlin structure to young people communities and family should raise children with the moral values that will give them the strength to resist the temptation
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Radical right libertarian views on drugs
Government threaten civil liberties by using police power to make a rest of his property
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Soft drugs
That’s harmful than other drugs to include marijuana hash sleeping pills

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