Drugs & Crime Overview
Despite the fact that K2 or Spice is often called "synthetic marijuana," it is NOT synthetic marijuana and contains man-made chemicals and no ______________.
What is THC?
________ is defined as a chronic, often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use, despite the harmful consequences to the individual and to those around him or her.
What is addiction?
This body of theories consider how environmental, socioeconomic and peer and family relationships can explain drug abuse:
What is sociological theories?
When examining the link between drug use and violent crime, these types of drugs often become the main focus.
What are stimulants?
The ________________ model states that addiction is a disease of the brain and symptoms of addiction as a disease include physical tolerance, physical reactions to withdrawal of the drug, cravings, changes in brain chemistry and loss of control over the use of the drug.
What is the disease model of drug abuse?
Spice/K2 and bath salts are examples of ______________, which are primarily developed in Asia.
What are synthetic or designer drugs?
One of the most significant signs that a person has become physically dependent on a drug is that when he or she stops using the drug, he or she experiences:
What is withdrawal symptoms?
____________ argues that low self-control is what causes people to engage in crime and drug use and that lack of self-control in an individual is due to inadequate parenting as a child.
What is self-control theory or a general theory of crime (GTC)?
Just because there is a relationship between drugs and crime does not necessarily mean that drugs ___________ crime.
What is cause?
__________ is the smokable form of powder cocaine.
What is crack?
THIS IS A TWO-PART QUESTION: American adolescents are _______ likely than their European counterparts to use cigarettes and alcohol and are ___________ likely to use illicit drugs.
What is less likely and more likely?
What are opium poppies?
__________________________argues that certain negative experiences or failures leads to strain and some individuals may turn to drugs to deal with this strain or negative emotions. There are essentially three sources of strain, including a) inability to achieve positive goals, b) loss of positive stimuli or c) the introduction of negative stimuli.
What is Agnew's General Strain Theory (GST)?
MDMA is another name for what drug?
What is ecstasy?
When an individual starts using drugs at a young age, this can lead to stunted emotional development, or "__________________."
What is arrested development?
Most cocaine in the U.S. originates in _____________.
What is Columbia?
What is the coca shrub?
_________________________ theory proposes that certain risk factors and personality traits explain various behaviors. For example, a large body of research has identified risk factors that explain BOTH drug use and delinquency. Some of these risk factors include: a “pleasure-seeking” personality, hostility, being a risk taker, having a parent with a substance abuse problem, poor parent-child relationship, inadequate parenting, early experimentation with alcohol and deviant peers.
What is General Risk Factor Theory or Problem Behavior Theory?
What is alcohol?
Most domestic marijuana in the U.S. comes from what three states?
What are California, Oregon and Washington?
Most heroin that makes its way into the U.S. comes from what two countries?
What are Mexico and Columbia?
What are the three main categories or types of drugs?
What are stimulants, depressants and hallucinogens?
The _________________ model of drug abuse states that personal choice plays an important role in initiating and sustaining drug use and that drug abusers can stop or control their use but choose not to.
What is the behavioral or moral issue model of drug abuse?
What is:
1. It is legal only for individuals over the age of 21.
2. You can have up to 1 oz. on you and up to 10 oz. in your home.
3. You cannot use marijuana in public or federal land.
4. It is still very illegal to drive under the influence of marijuana.
5. Employers, landlords, cities and towns may have their own policies about the use of marijuana.
_________ does not fit neatly into a specific category of drugs as it has properties of all three main types of drugs.
What is marijuana?