A person who has a pattern of drinking excessively even with the negative side effects on the person’s family, work, health and other aspects of their lives
What is alcoholism?
100
This is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences to the addicted individual and to those around him or her.
What is drug abuse/ addiction?
100
The biological aspects of addiction would this sociologicial concept connect to
What is nature?
200
the consumption of a constant amount of alcohol produces a lesser effect or increasing amounts of alcohol are necessary to produce the same effect (1).
What is tolerance?
200
What are some of the factors that lead to addiction?
Biology, Development, Environment
200
What are adolescences more willing to do during this time period of their lives?
They are more willing to take risks, and therefore that can lead them to experiment with drugs or alcohol.
300
How many people a year die of alcohol consumption?
100,000
300
Name one way the community is effected by drug abuse
•Increased levels of drug use leads to an increase level in crime and violence in a community.
•This can also lead to increased levels of domestic abuse and child neglect.
300
Parents are considered what kind of agent of socialization.
Primary.
400
What percentage of alcoholism relapse?
80-90%
400
How many people are killed around the world each year due to drug abuse/ addiction?
200,000
400
How much money does Mass Media spend to advertise alcohol and cigarettes.
$25 Billion
500
How many people under the age of 21 die because of alcohol each year?
5000
500
Name of the environmental influences
A person’s family, friends, socioeconomics status,quality of life, sexual abuse, stress, and quality of parenting all play a role on influencing a person to abuse drugs
500
Alcoholics and Drug Abusers are apart of their own (Word) where they have their own norms and values.