Policy Paper

Test Review #1
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
9:26 PM * 50 questions * Mostly multiple choice * Bring a number 2 pencil

1. Difference between illicit and licit drugs -illcit drugs-drugs whose manufacture,sale,or possession is illegal.ex:cocaine,herion,marijuana -licit drugs-drugs whose manufacture,sale,or possession is legal.ex:alchol,nictone, caffine 2.Difference between instrumental and recreational use of drugs -instrumental –A person taking a drug with a socially approved goal in mind. -recreational- A person is taking the drug for the sole purpose of experiencing its psychoactive properties ( to get high) 3.Difference between Primary Secondary Tertiary prevention
***Family Systems in Primary and Secondary Prevention*** * Family influences form the cornerstone of successful substance abuse prevention program. * Family is first line of defense. * Those who need information the most: * Parents who are in denial * Those out of control themselves * Those who are absent - 4.What illicit drug is the number one most likely to result in an emergency room visit -prescription or an Over the counter medication

5.Know the philosophy of supply and availability of towards drugs? -A decine is supply-increase in value and demand. 6.The result of mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines -a judge to impose a fixed minimal term in prison for individuals convicted of certain crimes,regardless of the individuals role in the crime or other mitigatin cirucumstances. 7.Know the supply and demand principle - 8.What was the purpose of raising the legal drinking age in the united states? Answer:Car Accidents

9.Know the triple threat affecting teenagers
***The Triple Threat: Stress, Boredom, and Money.*** * Three circumstances on the likelihood that a teenager would engage in some form of substance abuse:
1.The degree of stress they are under.
2.The Frequency with which they are bored
3.Money they have to spend in a week. 10.What are drug courts and their programs -Specialized courts designed to handle adult adult, nonviolent offenders with substance abuse problems. -defense attorney,probation officers,prosectors. 11.Know differential/association theory
**Differential Association Theory** * Erich Goode and Bruce Johnson * Drug taking behavior is learned in interactions and communications with other individuals.

12.Know labeling theory
**Labeling Theory** * A drug user internalizes a newly acquired label of deviance. * Continues drug-taking behavior that is based on the expectations of others.

13.Know social control theory
***Social Control/Bonding Theory*** * Weakened social bonds between an individual and social entities. * Ex: Family, religious affiliation, school and community

* Bond to society and moral code keeps them from breaking laws.

14.Know anomie/string theory * Sociologist Emile Durkheim (1893) * Feelings of frustration and alienation * Not able to meet the demands of society
**Five Adaptations of Anomie/Strain Theory**
1.Conformity
2.Innovation
3.Ritualism
4.Retreatism
5.Rebellion

15.Know robert murtence adaptations to Behavioral theories
Drug abuse comes as a result of reinforcing the behavior.
The effect

16.Neural transmitters Answer:Serotonin and dopamine

17.Is there a single theory for explanation of drug abuse? Answer:No 18.Know the rate of eliminated of the human body of drugs 19.What is the first line of defense against illicit drugs?

20.Difference between drug abuse and drug misuse * Misuse: When a prescription or over-the-counter (OTC) drug is used inappropriately. * Drug abuse: Drug-taking behavior where primary motivation is recreational.

21.Drug abuse warning network Answer:federal program in which metropolitan hospitals report the incidence of drug related lethal and nonlethal emergencies. 22.Know most frequently used drugs by high school students Answer:Cocaine,Marijuana,inhalants,nonmedical basis.

23.What's an additive effect? **the combined effect of drugs that, when used in combination, produce an effect that is greater than the sum of their separately measured individual effects.

24.What's potentiation? Potentiation - The possibility that one drug might have no effect at all unless it is taken simultaneously with another.

25.Know therapeutic index Answer:a measure of a drug's relative safety for use. Lethal dose for 50% of the population over the effective dose for 50% of the population.

26.Know what’s a lethal dose Answer:Greater amounts of a drug than the amounts necessary to produce an effect.

27.Know what are the most common 6 club drugs (rape) ANSWER: *MDMA(METHYLENDEDIOXYMETHAMPHETMAIE), *GHB(GAMMA-HYDROXYBUTYRATE), *KETAMINE *ROHYPNOL(FLUNITRAZEPAM) *METHAMPHETAMIE *LSD(LYSERGIC ACID DIETHYLAMIDE) 28.Know cross tolerance **The chronic use of one drug inducing a tolerance effect with regard to second drug that has never been used before. 29.Know what's the lazy ferry drug policy 30.What's the main goal of administering drugs into the body 31.Identify the individuals motivated by the positive rewards of the drug experience 32.What is the most common means of drug elimination through excretion -uses the liver and kidneys,exhaled,feces,sweat,saliva,breast milk,

Know these acts 33.Pure food and drug act of 1906 -packaged all foods and drugs to list the ingredients on the label of the product.

34.Harrison act of 1914 -to regulate addiction and drug abuse through government taxation.

35..Boggs act of 1951 -increased the penalties of previously enacted marijuana and narcotics laws. 36.Comprehensive drug act of 1970 -established five schedules for the classification of drugs based upon their approved medical uses,potential for abuse and potential for producing dependence. 37.Why was the drinking age raised in the 1980s 38.Know the 18th amendment of the constitution -The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, transport, import, or export of alcoholic beverages. October 1919 39.Why there were no US drug control policies in the 1800s 40.Drug administration a. Intravenous b. Oral 41.Drug related deaths are most likely to occur from what drug taking behavior -Herion or cocaine

42.Know the difference between the DEA and FDA -Drug Enforcement Agency -iFood Drug Admintraiton

43.What does the DEA do? Drug Enforcement Agency increasingly involved in the investigation and prosecution of terrorist groups because of the ties these groups usually have to drugs and drug trafficking 44.What does the FDA do? Food and drug Admistration

46.Guest speaker at the end mentioned drug related cases
60 - 65% percent would be drug related arrest