Deck 8: Drug Use and Addiction

Question 1

Which of the following drugs was legal until the 20 ^th century?

A) Marijuana
B) Cocaine
C) Heroin
D) All of the above were legal until the 20 ^th century.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Bill Clinton radically changed the drug policies of his predecessor, George H. Bush.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Addicts usually become addicts because they want to retreat from social life.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Which of the following is true?

A) Most people do not recognize a close connection between drugs and physical well-being.
B) Drugs often play important roles in some people's celebration or mourning rituals.
C) Most people do not think of drug-taking as a way to attain desired moods or psychological well-being.
D) People in the U.S. are not at all ambivalent about drug use.

Question 5

Historically, drug treatment programs have not been successful at treating most heroin addicts.

Question 6

Drugs become deviant only when individuals and group define it as such.

Question 7

Anne Wilson Schaef believes that everyone is an addict to something.

Question 8

Next to oil, what commodity is traded in the largest volume?

A) Coffee
B) Cigarettes
C) Marijuana
D) Soft drinks

Question 9

Which piece of legislation (passed in 1914) prohibited the selling of marijuana without a doctor's prescription?

A) The Harrison Act
B) The Marijuana Tax Act
C) The Mullick Amendment
D) The Marijuana Prescription Act

Question 10

The level of public concern over drugs remains constant over time.

Question 11

Prior to the 20 ^th century, U.S. society widely tolerated drug use in many forms.

Question 12

The authors of your textbook argue that a drug addict is someone who experiences distress as a result of not having a drug.

Question 13

The "War on Drugs" began during which presidential administration?

A) Carter
B) Reagan
C) Clinton
D) George H.W. Bush

Question 14

The U.N. estimates that _____ percent of those who contracted AIDS did so through intravenous drug use.

A) 10
B) 25
C) 40
D) 65

Question 15

Information about the negative physical consequences of drug use has a more powerful influence on drug taking decisions than whether or not a young person's friends use a drug.

Question 16

Addiction to opiates such as heroin come from:

A) regular use
B) method of administration
C) amount taken
D) purity

Question 17

The best-selling legal drug in the U.S. during 2013 was:

A) Zocor
B) Nexium
C) Abilify
D) Prevacid

Question 18

Drug use is:

A) a very rare occurrence for most people
B) common only for addicts
C) not really considered a problem in the United States
D) a fact of life for most Americans

Question 19

The drugs that account for the greatest proportion (not number) of drug addiction in the U.S. are:

A) hallucinogens
B) stimulants
C) opiates (morphine & heroin)
D) party drugs

Question 20

To reduce stress, men are more likely to drink alcohol and women are more likely to consume prescription drugs.

Question 21

A combination of cocaine and heroin is called a_______________, which intensifies the euphoric effect.

A) highball
B) speedball
C) coheron ball
D) quaalude

Question 22

Which of Waldorf's six stages of becoming a heroin addict involves experiencing jail or treatment programs for the first time, and failing at attempts to quit the habit?

A) Escalation
B) Maintaining
C) Dysfunction
D) Recovery

Question 23

Cocaine use spread in the U.S. in the late 1960s and early 1970s because:

A) Congress increased the legal limits on production of amphetamines
B) Congress reduced controls on depressants
C) The World Bank allocated funds to build a new highway in Peru
D) The Columbian government actively promoted the production of coca plants

Question 24

The idea that addicts and other drugs users commit crimes to support their expensive habit has been called the ______ theory of addiction.

A) criminalist
B) enslavement
C) entrapment
D) opportunity cost

Question 25

The term ___________ refers to physical dependence.

A) tolerance
B) withdrawl
C) addiction
D) fiend

Question 26

The first major piece of legislation that stemmed from attitudes condemning drug use was called:

A) The Harrison Act
B) The Marijuana Tax Act
C) The Opium Control Act
D) None of the above

Question 27

_____ theory explains drug addiction in terms of cultural values and the user's availability of illegitimate means.

A) Lindesmith's
B) Reagan's
C) Merton's
D) Sutherland's

Question 28

One theory of addiction argues that people become addicts when they fear the pain or discomfort associated with withdrawal, and they begin to play the social role of a drug addict. Which theorist developed this theory?

A) Lindesmith
B) Akers
C) Stephens
D) Gordon

Question 29

Most everyone who tries heroin and becomes addicted:

A) was wealthy before becoming addicted
B) takes heroin alone
C) learns to take the drug from others
D) is of Asian decent

Question 30

Addicts rely on the drug subculture in what way?

A) To connect with dealers
B) To maintain "hustles" to secure money for drugs
C) To protect themselves from outside interference from police and others
D) All of the above

Question 31

Which drug treatment program applied a learning or socialization theory of deviance to the treatment of addicts?

A) Narcotics Anonymous
B) Synanon
C) Daytop Village
D) CareUnit

Question 32

A RAND Corporation study on the economics of drug dealing found that the typical, daily drug dealer between 18 and 40 years old makes approximately ______________ tax free per year.

A) $103,000
B) $78,000
C) $54,000
D) $24,000

Question 33

No deaths have ever been directly connected to which drug?

A) Cocaine
B) heroin
C) Marijuana
D) Barbiturates

Question 34

This drug is a synthetic narcotic analgesic originally developed in Germany during World War II.

A) Methamphetamine
B) Methadone
C) LSD
D) Ecstasy

Question 35

Which opiate is often used as a replacement for heroin as a way to treat heroin addiction?

A) Morphine
B) Oxycontin
C) Methadone
D) None of the above

Question 36

The street term for buying heroin is ______ .

A) the hustle
B) copping
C) getting off
D) scoring

Question 37

People can easily get drugs such as antibiotics over the counter for which kind of animal?

A) Horses
B) Dogs and cats
C) Fish
D) Cattle

Question 38

The crystalline version of the drug methamphetamine is called _____.

A) ice
B) crank
C) speed
D) crystal

Question 39

Strategies that attempt to alter the supply for drugs include:

A) applying tougher criminal sanctions to deter users
B) diverting drug users to treatment programs
C) initiatives to decriminalize drugs
D) all of the above

Question 40

The _____ perspective views drugs as a behavioral issue to be addressed by community resources rather than the law.

A) public health
B) legalist
C) local
D) functionalist

Question 41

Explain how a typical heroin addict in the U.S. becomes an addict.

Question 42

Compare and contrast the arguments for and against legalization of drugs. If forced to make a choice, would you decriminalize drugs? Why or why not?

Question 43

Define what a drug is from a sociological perspective. Why is drug use a fact of daily life for most Americans? What features of a normal life actively promote drug use?

Question 44

How does one learn to be a marijuana user? How are group associations an important factor in marijuana use? Is marijuana a "gateway drug?" Why or why not?

Question 45

Describe the addict subculture and how it promotes drug use and addiction.