Problems with Drug Policy
War on Drugs was declared by this person.
Who is President Nixon?
This president's administration established the "No tolerance" method for penalizing drug users.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Fewer than this percent of young people who tried crack cocaine became regular users.
What is 6%?
The second most dangerous and most addictive substances known to man
What is cocaine?
The War on Drugs was declared in this year.
What is 1971?
This view indicates that neither illicit drugs nor their users are at fault for widespread addiction.
What is the disease concept?
Only 15% of crack-related homicides were a result of this.
What are the physical effects the physical effects of crack cocaine?
highly addictive analgesic drug derived from morphine, often used illicitly as a narcotic producing euphoria
What is heroin?
These two groups of people were targeted in the beginning of the War on Drugs.
What are African Americans and anti-war activists?
This approach to drug policy is heavily influenced by a late 19th and early 20th century movement to ban alcohol.
What is the Temperance view?
These groups called crack cocaine “the most dangerous and quickly addictive drug known to man.” in 1989.
What are government agencies?
the rate of of people dying form drug overdose involving heroin in the United States is ________.
5 deaths for every 100,000 American.
This is one of the two laws regarding drug policy on the powerpoint that had racial implications.
What is San Francisco’s Anti-Opium Law
or
Temperance focuses on the _________ of drugs to curb usage.
What is supply?
This act finally reduced the 100-1 disparity between the punishment for crack cocaine compared to powdered cocaine established by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986.
What is the Fair Sentencing Act?
True or false?
Children and teens who use alcohol and drugs are more likely to have a substance use disorder as adults
True
President Nixon associated anti-war activists with this drug.
What is marijuana?
President Clinton is often associated with this view on drug policy.
What is the disease perspective?
The majority of crack-related homicides are a result of this.
What is systemic violence?
3 effects in the use of drug impact on children.
Affect child development
Higher risks in health harm
Long-term use