Exam 8: Drug Use and Addiction

Addicts usually become addicts because they want to retreat from social life.

A RAND Corporation study on the economics of drug dealing found that the typical, daily drug dealer between 18 and 40 years old makes approximately ______________ tax free per year.

Which piece of legislation (passed in 1914) prohibited the selling of marijuana without a doctor's prescription?

The best-selling legal drug in the U.S. during 2013 was:

People can easily get drugs such as antibiotics over the counter for which kind of animal?

The street term for buying heroin is ______ .

Information about the negative physical consequences of drug use has a more powerful influence on drug taking decisions than whether or not a young person's friends use a drug.

Most everyone who tries heroin and becomes addicted:

The term ___________ refers to physical dependence.

Which of the following drugs was legal until the 20 ^th century?

Drug use is:

Which of Waldorf's six stages of becoming a heroin addict involves experiencing jail or treatment programs for the first time, and failing at attempts to quit the habit?

One theory of addiction argues that people become addicts when they fear the pain or discomfort associated with withdrawal, and they begin to play the social role of a drug addict. Which theorist developed this theory?

The _____ perspective views drugs as a behavioral issue to be addressed by community resources rather than the law.

The first major piece of legislation that stemmed from attitudes condemning drug use was called:

To reduce stress, men are more likely to drink alcohol and women are more likely to consume prescription drugs.

A combination of cocaine and heroin is called a_______________, which intensifies the euphoric effect.

This drug is a synthetic narcotic analgesic originally developed in Germany during World War II.

Addicts rely on the drug subculture in what way?

No deaths have ever been directly connected to which drug?