Drugs and Crime

Question 1

Depressants

Answer 1

Slow down the activity of the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

Question 2

Examples of Depressants

Answer 2

• Alcohol
• Barbiturates
• Tranquilizers (for anxiety without disruption, can cause amnesia)

Question 3

Narcotics

Answer 3

• morphine (most common for pain)
  -Heroin (injections that can cause HIV)
• Synthetic narcotics (fentylon; also for pain, oxicotin; diff than oxicodin)

Question 4

Stimulants

Answer 4

• create a sense of alertness, talkativeness & well-being

Question 5

Common forms of stimulants

Answer 5

• caffiene (coffee & energy drinks)
• Nicotine
• Cocaine
• Amphetamine (Adderall)
• Methamphetamine (crystal meth)

Question 6

Other drugs

Answer 6

• Cannabis & Marijuana
• Steroids
• Inhalants
• Hallucinogens

Question 7

Inhalants

Answer 7

1. volatile solvents
2. Airsois
3. gases
4. nitrates
   *high doesn’t last = constant hits

Question 8

Hallucinogens

Answer 8

LSD, disassociated
- alter though process
- nausea, jittery, increased heart rate & breaking

Question 9

Trends of Drug & Crime

Answer 9

• Anthropologist: Earlier culture learned through a process of trail & error
• Drugs use is woven into history of civilization
• For the Europeans & British, drinking was an integral aspect of life

Question 10

History of Coke & Opioids

Answer 10

• U.S. Civil war & opioid addiction (for pain)
• Bayer Company & heroin (heroin was 10x stronger than meth)
• Pure food & Drug Act & Harrison Act (1900)
• on any medication
• criminalization of heroin (popular for the jazz artist)
• early 1900’s medical viewpoints of drugs (coke & heroin) as a local anesthetic drug
• coke should not be used as a prescription for heroin

Question 11

Prohibition era

Answer 11

• National Prohibition Era & 18th amendment
• During prohibition era, drinking patterns changed
• 21st amendment: Ratification of 18th amendment

Question 12

“Reefer Madness”

Answer 12

• Act of smoking marijuana was considered a social problem is the U.S
• Marijuana tax act in 1937
• federal level; taxed the grower, distributer, buyer, and seller but did not make it illegal (only impossible)
• “reefer madness” movie about a teenagers body reaction to marijuana

Question 13

Trends of Drug Use

Answer 13

• 1960’s & baby boomers
• Baby-boomer generation
• The counterculture movement
• war on drugs
• public concern about drugs 1980’s
• media coverage of drug use in the U.S
• just say no campaign
• Drug use in pregnancy & crack babies
• current trends
• U.S. faces national crisis: misuse of & addition to opioids
• Growing concern over designer drugs (duped version of approved drugs)

Question 14

Moral Panic*** by Stanley Cohen

Answer 14

a widespread fear or anxiety within a society that a particular group or activity poses a threat to its values, interests, or well-being

Question 15

Example of Moral Panic

Answer 15

• Violent video games cause school shootings
• emo kids are dangerous

Question 16

Drug crime link

Answer 16

• substance use & criminal behavior link
• Many drug users do not commit crime
• Tripartite conceptional framework
• psychopharmacological violence = drugs to reduce violent tendencies
• economically compulsive = robbing to support drug use
• systemic violence

Question 17

Modern policies

Answer 17

• scientific knowledge in the field of drug use & political knowledge
• Reducing consumption of drugs Enhancing law enforcement efforts doesn’t solve the problem
• Systemic violence

Question 18

Modern Policies

Answer 18

• scientific knowledge in the field of drug use & political knowledge
• enhancing law enforcement
• interdiction
• eradication
• drug court
• maintenance & Decriminalization
• harm reduction

Question 19

Interdiction

Answer 19

various steps implemented to interrupt illicit drug trafficking
- queuing
- detections
- apprehension
- prosecution
* High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program
^ focus on reducing drug trafficking & production in the U.S by connecting with others to create stratgies

Question 20

Eradication

Answer 20

4 recognized techniques of eradication
1. mechanical
2. bunting
3. chemical
4. biological

Get to the source

Question 21

Drug Court

Answer 21

• offenders with substane abuse clogging the criminal justice system
• drug treatment & court programs (reduce/ drop charges; may get employed, get kids back, etc)
• President Trump & SUPPORT ACT (recovery & reinforcement)

Question 22

Maintenance & Decriminalization

Answer 22

• maintenance policies
• Lekins? policy affricating for the accessibility of drugs through the governments regulation (distribution & legal age of use)
• decriminalized policies
• supports end of drug use (mostly for marijuana possession)

Question 23

Harm reduction

Answer 23

Harm reduction policies
- providing sterile needles
- out reach

Question 24

Recommendation for future policies

Answer 24

• Drug policies in the U.S can be contradictory
• Substance abuse is not an isolated problem to certain communities
• programs will inevitably be compromised