Drugs, Crime & Justice Overview
A drug that, according to the DEA, has no accepted medical use and has a high potential for abuse/dependence is called a Schedule ______ drug.
What is a Schedule I drug?
Marijuana is a Schedule ____ drug.
What is a Schedule I drug?
____________ theories believe that certain personality traits or conditions make certain people more susceptible to drug abuse.
What are psychodynamic or personality theories?
Of the different models proposed by Erich Goode, which of the following model concludes that drug abuses causes criminal behavior?
What is a depressant? OR What is an opiate?
According to the World Drug Report, U.S. rates of drug use are _______ than the worldwide average.
What is higher?
We discussed the three main categories/types of drugs. What type of drug are both cocaine and meth?
What is a stimulant?
In cases in which a parent or both parents are drug abusers, the children are biologically predisposed to addiction although most children in these situations never become addicts because genetic factors are most likely ________________________ rather than deterministic.
What is probabilistic?
Goldstein's tripartite conceptual framework was developed to explain the relationship between drugs and ___________ crime.
__________ is a powerful, synthetic opioid (pain killer)o that can be prescribed by a physician or produced illegally and has been associated with overdose deaths across the country.
What is Fentanyl?
The leader of the Medellin cartel was _____.
Who is Pablo Escobar?
When a drug enters the body via oral ingestion, smoking, snorting, or injection, the chemicals move through the bloodstream and must cross what barrier to produce an effect?
What is the blood-brain barrier?
_______________________ theory argues that drug use is learned behavior through positive (i.e. getting high and feeling euphoria) and negative (avoiding the pains and discomforts of withdrawal) reinforcement.
What is Skinnerian conditioning theory?
According to Goldstein's ______________________ model, certain drugs, especially stimulants like cocaine, increase excitability, irritability, aggression, hostility, irrationality, anger and paranoia (during withdrawal), which then increases the likelihood of violent or aggressive behavior.
What is the psychopharmacological model?
The term ________ is typically used to indicate that a person is experiencing negative consequences as a result of repeated use of a drug.
Around 2005, there was a shift to foreign production of meth because of the ___________, which reduced the availability of the chemicals needed to produce large batches.
What is the Meth Epidemic Act?
The amount of a drug needed to achieve a specific effect is called the _______ of a drug.
What is the effective does or ED?
What is Pavlovian conditioning theory?
A drug user who resorts to aggravated robbery in order to buy money for drugs is an example of the ___________________.
What is the economic-compulsive model?
Taking a drug like Percocet to get high instead of for pain relief is an example of ___________.
What is drug misuse?
____________ refers to the international business encompassing the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of illicit drugs in practically all regions of the world.
What is the global illicit drug trade?
The amount of a drug at which death occurs is called the ________ of a drug.
__________________ argues that drug use and criminal behavior is most likely to occur when an individual does not have strong bonds or attachments to important mechanisms of control, including family, work, school, community, prosocial friends, etc.
Traditional aggressive patterns of interaction within the systems of illegal drug trafficking and distribution is called _________________.
What is systemic violence?
What is drug dependence?