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Assignment:

Please help me answer these questions..

• Do more people use legal drugs or illegal drugs? Why?
• What is the difference between a compulsive drug user and a recreational drug user?
• What is recreational use vs. instrumental use? What is legal use vs. illegal use?
• What is the name for crime that occurs due to a need for drugs? What about crime that occurs due to the EFFECTS of drugs?
• If we followed the criteria of the CSA and applied it to alcohol, would alcohol still be legal or not? If not, in which schedule would it belong?
• Which is the legal drug most used for recreation in the US?
• Know each of the drugs that we discussed in class so far, their characteristics and what classification they belong in (stimulant, depressant, hallucinogen, etc)
• Which federally illegal psychoactive substance has the highest "loyalty" rate- the rate of users who persistently and consistently use the drug? What about the drug with the LOWEST loyalty rate?
• Which ILLEGAL drug is most likely to cause dependence?

Know the surveys/ studies of drug use, and what/who they study: DAWN, NSDUH, MTF and what are some of their limitations.

• How do social values influence how we define drug abuse?
• Most programs that discourage drug use are geared toward which group?
• In which age group does drug use peak?
• What is a loyalty rate? A prevalence rate?
• What Amendment enacted prohibition? Which amendment repealed it? Which LAW strengthened the amendment? After prohibition, what happened to the murder rate?
• Which drug was a common ingredient in soft drinks in the 19th century?
• What is microdosing?
• The first drug law outlawed the use of what substance? Which social group was this law aimed at? In what city was this law enacted?
• What was an ingredient in many patent medicines?
• The earliest 'War on Drugs" was when and targeted which substance?
• Barbituric acid was synthesized in which country? What class of drugs use this as a base?
• When LSD first arrived in the US, how was it used?
• By what decade was morphine readily available in the US without a prescription?
• During WWII, how were amphetamines used? What was the first amphetamine named and marketed as?
• What were the Opium Wars, who was involved and why?
• What did the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 do? Which major event led to the enactment of the Pure Food and Drug Act?
• What was the Harrison Act? What did it do? Before the Harrison Act, most drug addicts were what type of addicts?
• What did the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 do?
• What did the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 do? Which drugs are Schedule I substances? Know some examples and why these drugs are in that schedule. Also, what are the two main considerations that are taken when deciding in which schedule a drug should be placed? Know examples of schedule II, III and IV drugs as well (cocaine and methamphetamine to be specific)
• When was the DEA established and which Department is it situated within?
• Which President was the first to launch a "War on Drugs"?
• Biological and psychological theories of drug use are focused on specific people, which makes them what type of theories?
• Sociological theories focus on what when explaining drug use?

Know the following theories of drug use:

• Metabolic imbalance theory
• Broken windows theory
• Collective efficacy
• Negative reinforcement
• Positive reinforcement
• Routine activities theory
• Anomie theory

How have the following drugs been portrayed by the media and in which decade was each the focus of the media?

• PCP
• Marijuana (1980's and 1930's)
• Crack

What is a moral panic?

What are the theories of media bias?