Question 1

Summarize the effects of amphetamine and supply at least one function or purpose that these drugs could help accomplish.In the U.S.at this time,would such instrumental use typically be legal or illegal? Why?

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Question 2

Do the different data sources at our disposal (ADAM-II,DAWN,MTF,NSDUH,etc.)say more or less the same thing with respect to stimulant use? Or does each paint a somewhat different portrait of drug use and abuse in the United States at a given time?

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Question 3

Why do you think the use of methamphetamine is as regionalized as it is? Why is use of meth so much higher on the West coast than it is in the East? What factors or forces account for this extremely strong concentration with respect to geographic area of the country?

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Question 4

Spell out,with reference to the consumption of cocaine,how "classic" addiction,physical dependence,and behavioral dependence differ.Do the same with methamphetamine.

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Question 5

What is "immediate sensual appeal" and what role does it play in the use and abuse of the stimulants,including cocaine?

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Question 6

The law penalizes,and public opinion condemns,crack cocaine possession,distribution,and sale more harshly than for powder cocaine.Is this fair? Does it make sense? Or is there some logic to it? Explain.

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Question 7

What accounts for the media's exaggeration of the danger and threat of certain drugs at certain times-in the case of the discussions in this chapter,that focused on methamphetamine beginning in the late 1980s and continuing,though unevenly,into the twenty-first century? What was it about meth that made it the "scary drug of the year"? Were any of these media dangers based on objective evidence? Or were they all so exaggerated as to be nearly entirely a fantasy? More generally,are drug "scares" really as objectively threatening as the claims,or were they fantasy creations of the press?

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Question 8

Spell out some differences between the use of amphetamine pills and tablets and the IV injection of methamphetamine.

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Question 9

Compare media attention paid to certain kinds of drug use over,say,the past century,and compare that paid to other drugs,then "match" the volume of each with respect to clear-cut harms-for instance,death by overdose.Consider that the benzodiazepines (tranquilizers such as Valium)and the antidepressants rank in the top five drugs that cause death by overdose,yet methamphetamine and amphetamine do not appear on this list at all (nor does marijuana).What do you think accounts for this discrepancy? Are all the reasons "constructionist" in nature-that is,not based on the objective harms of the drugs in question at all? Or are concrete,objectivistic reasons behind these discrepancies as well?

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Quiz 11: Stimulants: Amphetamine, Methamphetamine, Cocaine, and Crack