Drugs and Society 12th Edition by Glen Hanson, Peter Venturelli,Annette Fleckenstein

Exercise 3

Do you accept the behavioristic view that one school of psychology offers for explaining why people come to abuse drugs? (In a general sense, this view primarily states that when behavior is reinforced, people repeat behaviors that are rewarded.) Explain your answer in terms of how this occurs with drug users and drug abusers.