DRUGS AND BEHAVIOR CHAPTER 1 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
ALREADY GRADED A+
Points to consider when thinking of drug use Ans✓✓✓1. Who is taking
the drug? (age, gender)
2. What drug are they taking? (illicit or licit)
3. When/where the drug is being used
4. Why the person takes the drug (instrumental or recreational)
5. How the drug is being taken
6. How much of the drug is being used
Psychoactive drugs Ans✓✓✓Substances that alter our feelings, our
thoughts, our perceptions of the world, and our behavior
Have the ability to alter the functioning of the brain and hence produce
changes in our behavior and experience
Illicit Drugs Ans✓✓✓Illegal drugs
Criminal penalties imposed
Licit drugs Ans✓✓✓Legal drugs such as alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine,
and rx meds
Drug dependence Ans✓✓✓A condition in which an individual feels a
compulsive need to continue taking a drug.
, In the process, the drug assumes an increasingly central role in the
individuals life.
Understanding interplay between Ans✓✓✓Drug taking behavior and
society is essential when we consider the dangers potential for drug use
to become drug dependance
Signs of drug dependance Ans✓✓✓Display intense cravings for the
drug and require increasingly greater quantities to get the same, desired
effect
Drug Ans✓✓✓A chemical substance that, when taken into the body,
alters the structure or functioning of the body in the same way
excluding those nutrients considered to be related to normal functioning
Two lessons in defining a drug Ans✓✓✓1. There is probably no perfect
definition that would distinguish drugs from non drugs without leaving a
number of cases that fall within some kind of grey area
2. We draw the distinction between drugs and non drugs in terms of
whether the substance in question has been intended to be used primarily
as a way of inducing a bodily or psychological change
Instrumental use Ans✓✓✓The motivation of a drug user who takes the
drug for a specific purpose other than getting high
A person is taking a drug with a specific socially approved goal in mind
EX. sleep meds and cold meds
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
ALREADY GRADED A+
Points to consider when thinking of drug use Ans✓✓✓1. Who is taking
the drug? (age, gender)
2. What drug are they taking? (illicit or licit)
3. When/where the drug is being used
4. Why the person takes the drug (instrumental or recreational)
5. How the drug is being taken
6. How much of the drug is being used
Psychoactive drugs Ans✓✓✓Substances that alter our feelings, our
thoughts, our perceptions of the world, and our behavior
Have the ability to alter the functioning of the brain and hence produce
changes in our behavior and experience
Illicit Drugs Ans✓✓✓Illegal drugs
Criminal penalties imposed
Licit drugs Ans✓✓✓Legal drugs such as alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine,
and rx meds
Drug dependence Ans✓✓✓A condition in which an individual feels a
compulsive need to continue taking a drug.
, In the process, the drug assumes an increasingly central role in the
individuals life.
Understanding interplay between Ans✓✓✓Drug taking behavior and
society is essential when we consider the dangers potential for drug use
to become drug dependance
Signs of drug dependance Ans✓✓✓Display intense cravings for the
drug and require increasingly greater quantities to get the same, desired
effect
Drug Ans✓✓✓A chemical substance that, when taken into the body,
alters the structure or functioning of the body in the same way
excluding those nutrients considered to be related to normal functioning
Two lessons in defining a drug Ans✓✓✓1. There is probably no perfect
definition that would distinguish drugs from non drugs without leaving a
number of cases that fall within some kind of grey area
2. We draw the distinction between drugs and non drugs in terms of
whether the substance in question has been intended to be used primarily
as a way of inducing a bodily or psychological change
Instrumental use Ans✓✓✓The motivation of a drug user who takes the
drug for a specific purpose other than getting high
A person is taking a drug with a specific socially approved goal in mind
EX. sleep meds and cold meds
