SOC 220 EXAM 3 STUDY GUIDE
DRUGZ
Illegal drug use - Answers -peaked in 1970s
declined in 1980s
1990 on remained stable
Men and women with drugs - Answers -men use illegal drugs more than women
Age - Answers -increased in early 20s
baby boom generation ages: increase in illegal drug use by older americans
Punishment - Answers -US locks up more people on drug charges than Europe does
for anything
Race - Answers -blacks incarcerated more than whites for marijuana
"Stop and frisk" tactics - Answers -minorities publicly patted down and searched (NYC
and Chicago)
Overdose - Answers -overdose deaths > vehicle accidents and 3x more than murder
Marijuana - Answers -least toxic drug in popular use
WAR ON DRUGS - Answers -
addiction - Answers -illegal drugs are not more addictive
not everyone gets addicted
morphine - Answers -excellent analgesic
addictive, tolerance
respiratory depression
barbiturates - Answers -depressants, sedatives, anesthetics
surgery
OD fatal
Socially accepted drugs - Answers -tobacco
caffeine
alcohol
Drug assumptions - Answers -prescription drug users appear normal
meth users appear toothless, emaciated, addict
(incorrect)
, Difference is in how they are used
Crack babies - Answers -claims traced to an early pilot study that failed to control for
use of alcohol , other drugs, or poverty
(later studies do not support this)
Media - Answers -stereotypes against illegal drug use
Why people use drugs - Answers -therapeutic
recreational uses
spiritual or psychological uses
escape
Stuart Walton - Answers -argues that human psychoactive drug use is rooted in our
evolutionary heritage
stresses that importance of pleasure seeking and important functions of social drug use
HISTORY ON DRUGZ - Answers -
Intoxicant is a norm - Answers -societies differ only in respect to which drugs are
defined as acceptable or unacceptable
Tech advances - Answers -people getting intoxicated on natural substances
modern pharmacology was transforming old drugs and creating new ones
develop more efficient and faster ways of putting drugs in body
Prohibition - Answers -action of forbidding something
alcohol prohibition - Answers -years before prohibition- states were going dry
18th amendment (1917)
Volstead act - Answers -eliminate drunkenness, rid of saloons, prevent absenteeism
drinking increased with prohibition - Answers -succeeded in driving up alcohol price for
about a year
prices then fell
Bootlegging - Answers -smuggling alcohol on land
rum-running - Answers -smuggling alcohol over seas
home made alcohol - Answers -many people made own moonshine, bathtub
prohibition changed US dringing - Answers -people drinking to get drunk
move towards hard liquor
women and kids drank openly
DRUGZ
Illegal drug use - Answers -peaked in 1970s
declined in 1980s
1990 on remained stable
Men and women with drugs - Answers -men use illegal drugs more than women
Age - Answers -increased in early 20s
baby boom generation ages: increase in illegal drug use by older americans
Punishment - Answers -US locks up more people on drug charges than Europe does
for anything
Race - Answers -blacks incarcerated more than whites for marijuana
"Stop and frisk" tactics - Answers -minorities publicly patted down and searched (NYC
and Chicago)
Overdose - Answers -overdose deaths > vehicle accidents and 3x more than murder
Marijuana - Answers -least toxic drug in popular use
WAR ON DRUGS - Answers -
addiction - Answers -illegal drugs are not more addictive
not everyone gets addicted
morphine - Answers -excellent analgesic
addictive, tolerance
respiratory depression
barbiturates - Answers -depressants, sedatives, anesthetics
surgery
OD fatal
Socially accepted drugs - Answers -tobacco
caffeine
alcohol
Drug assumptions - Answers -prescription drug users appear normal
meth users appear toothless, emaciated, addict
(incorrect)
, Difference is in how they are used
Crack babies - Answers -claims traced to an early pilot study that failed to control for
use of alcohol , other drugs, or poverty
(later studies do not support this)
Media - Answers -stereotypes against illegal drug use
Why people use drugs - Answers -therapeutic
recreational uses
spiritual or psychological uses
escape
Stuart Walton - Answers -argues that human psychoactive drug use is rooted in our
evolutionary heritage
stresses that importance of pleasure seeking and important functions of social drug use
HISTORY ON DRUGZ - Answers -
Intoxicant is a norm - Answers -societies differ only in respect to which drugs are
defined as acceptable or unacceptable
Tech advances - Answers -people getting intoxicated on natural substances
modern pharmacology was transforming old drugs and creating new ones
develop more efficient and faster ways of putting drugs in body
Prohibition - Answers -action of forbidding something
alcohol prohibition - Answers -years before prohibition- states were going dry
18th amendment (1917)
Volstead act - Answers -eliminate drunkenness, rid of saloons, prevent absenteeism
drinking increased with prohibition - Answers -succeeded in driving up alcohol price for
about a year
prices then fell
Bootlegging - Answers -smuggling alcohol on land
rum-running - Answers -smuggling alcohol over seas
home made alcohol - Answers -many people made own moonshine, bathtub
prohibition changed US dringing - Answers -people drinking to get drunk
move towards hard liquor
women and kids drank openly
