Alchol and Drug Abuse

Abryanne Jones

Intro to Drug and Alchol Abuse

March 1, 2017

1. It’s really up to that individual and how they are feeling. If they customer wanted to buy the drug they would and if the seller wanted to sell it that’s what he or she would do, just let them do it. The term has been used to characterize the general nature of the U.S government of that era. (pg.23)
2. Three main concerns aroused public interest: toxicity – some drug sellers were considered to be endangering the public health and putting people in harms way because they were selling dangerous, toxic chemicals, often without labeling them or putting warnings on them and their side effects; dependence – some sellers were seen as putting people in harms way and endangering their health by selling them habit forming drugs again often without appropriate   labels or warnings. Crime- the drug user come to be a treat to public safety the attitude became widespread that drug crazed individuals would often commit very bad crimes. (p.24)
3. The answer is chronic. (p.24)
4. Toxicity data from the drug abuse warning network (dawn) and the National Survey a drug used and health. (p.26-27)
5. Marijuana, Cocaine, Hydrocodone (Vicodin) and oxycodone (oxycontin) (p.26-27)
6. Both criminal activity and drug use could well be caused by other factors producing both types of deviant behavior in the same individuals for unlawful drugs. (p.39)
7. Alcohol, nicotine, cocaine, and Marijuana (p.35)
8. American Psychiatric Association, diagnostic and statistical manual. (p.34)
9. The basis for concern was the belief that drug use causes criminal behavior is when the person is under the influence of the drug. Drug use maybe said to cause crime refers to crimes carried out for obtaining money it purchases unlawful drugs. Drug use causes crime is that unlawful drug use is a crime. (p.39-40)
10. From 1987 through 2003, and beginning again 2007 there was 90 percent of convicts. In 2012 in five states around the country, between 60 and 80 percent of the adult male convicts of ten drugs. (p.40)