Deck 8: Regulating Drugs and Their Consequences

Question 1

Which statement is false?

A)Blue laws regarding early closing on Sundays result in higher sales.
B)Lower drinking ages are associated with increased rates of automobile crashes among young people.
C)Areas using monopoly distribution show lower levels of consumption and alcohol-related health problems than areas using private competition
D)When a legally intoxicated person attempts to drive an automobile, a crime is committed.

Answer 1

Areas using monopoly distribution show lower levels of consumption and alcohol-related health problems than areas using private competition

Question 2

Which statement would you say is most accurate based on the research by Benson and Rasmussen?

A) The war on drugs cannot be won.
B) The United States is winning its war on drugs.
C) More addicts are receiving needed treatment due to the war on drugs.
D) Due to the high volume of prisoners, the per-person cost of imprisoning drug offenders has decreased since Nixon declared a war on drugs in 1971.

Answer 2

The war on drugs cannot be won.

Question 3

The Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 was a .

A)registration act designed to restrict the distribution of narcotic drugs to pharmacists
B)registration act designed to restrict the distribution of narcotic drugs to physicians
C)labeling act designed to restrict the distribution of narcotic drugs to physicians and pharmacists
D)labeling and registration act designed to restrict the distribution of narcotic drugs to physicians and pharmacists

Answer 3

labeling and registration act designed to restrict the distribution of narcotic drugs to physicians and pharmacists

Question 4

What are the factors on which the price elasticity of a drug depends? What is the relationship among taxes, consumption, and revenue?

Question 5

A young adult is arrested for possession of five grams of crack in California. It is her first offense as an adult. She was convicted once on a drug charge as a juvenile. What would you say is most likely to happen to her?

A) She will automatically be sentenced to five years of prison.
B) She will receive treatment, as first- and second time offenders in California are mandated to do.
C) She will be imprisoned without treatment, as California does not require treatment for drug-related offenses.
D) She will most likely serve a short period of time in prison and be released on probation, as California is experiencing a severe crisis of prison overcrowding.

Question 6

Suppose you are on your city council and have elected to approve a syringe exchange program in your city. The state in which your city lies has a prescription law. Your decision is .

A) tolerated but illegal
B) illegal
C) legal
D) legal but intolerable

Question 7

Suppose you are a server at a restaurant/bar. Based on dramshop laws, which statement best describes how to perform your job to reduce your liability should a customer cause harm or injury to another after drinking alcohol at your establishment?

A) Check identification for possible underage customers
B) Avoid working during happy hour
C) Provide alcohol to visibly agitated customers who demand it in order to prevent them from causing injury to you or others
D) Check identification, cut off visibly intoxicated customers, and see that they get home safely

Question 8

What are some of the dangers associated with forfeiture laws? Give an example.

Question 9

A repeat drug offender is legally coerced to enter a therapeutic community TC). Based on current research, what do you think is likely to occur?

A) The TC stands a good chance of effectively restructuring the immature, addictive-prone individual into a strong, self-reliant, drug-free person.
B) The TC stands a poor chance of effectively restructuring the immature, addictive-prone individual into a strong, self-reliant, drug-free person.
C) The individual will most likely remain an immature, addictive- prone person, as TCs that cater to legally coerced individuals are not very successful.
D) The individual will most likely return to drugs while staying at the TC, as legal coercion is not very effective and the oversight at TCs is generally poor.

Question 10

According to Moore and Gerstein, what are the three principle lessons of Prohibition? What are two additional important lessons?

Question 11

Based on Cook's research, you might say that when the tax on liquor increases, consumption and serious alcohol-related health problems .

A) increases; increase
B) decreases; decrease
C) increases; decrease
D) decreases; increase

Question 12

A first-time, adult, drug offender is channeled through a drug court. This means that and the likelihood of effectiveness is that of other diversionary programs.

A) the case may be adjudicated and sentencing withheld while the defendant is in treatment; less than
B) the case and sentencing may be adjudicated while the defendant is in treatment; less than
C) prosecution and adjudication may be deferred while the defendant enters treatment; equal to
D) prosecution and adjudication may be deferred while the defendant enters treatment; greater than

Question 13

Why might a serious student of public policy be discouraged by using law enforcement as the best effort to reduce illegal drug use?

A) A serious student of public policy would be encouraged by local, state, and federal law enforcement programs due to their fragmentation.
B) Law enforcement among local, state, and federal programs can cohesively manage drug abuse prevention programs.
C) The war analogy may be appropriate for large drug cartels but not for the prevention of drug abuse by the nation's children.
D) The war on drugs is simply a continuation of the Harrison Act with less funding for drug abuse prevention.

Question 14

Public policies regarding a substance are concerned with .

A) the legality of producing, selling, and using a substance
B) the legality of producing, selling, and using a substance; limiting use of a substance; preventing misuse of a substance; enhancing revenues from taxes
C) limiting use and preventing misuse of a substance
D) enhancing revenue from taxes

Question 15

What would you say is the biggest threat to the general welfare of U.S. citizens?

A) Cocaine, because of the violent crime and corruption associated with the large drug cartels and governments of the countries in which cocaine is produced
B) Alcohol, because half of all people committing violent crimes are under its influence at the time of the crime
C) Marijuana, because it is the most used illegal drug
D) Tobacco, because it kills more people every year than all other drugs combined and yet is subsidized by the government

Question 16

The divisions between problem and nonproblem use of drugs is largely .

A) pharmacological
B) physiological
C) historical
D) economic

Question 17

What are the two laws that impede needle exchange programs? What evidence is there to support the use of needle and syringe exchange programs? What is your personal opinion on needle and syringe exchange programs?

Question 18

The consumption of alcohol during Prohibition decreased, according to these reliable indicators.

A) Acute alcohol overdose fatalities, liver cirrhosis, alcoholic psychosis
B) Liver cirrhosis, automobile fatalities, alcoholic psychosis
C) Acute alcohol overdose fatalities, hospital admissions for liver cirrhosis, alcoholic psychosis
D) Liver cirrhosis, acute alcohol overdose fatalities, hospital admissions for alcoholic psychosis

Question 19

What are some expected benefits of the legalization of currently illegal drugs? What are some potential problems? Briefly explain why you are in favor of or against legalization.

Question 20

A young adult is arrested for attempted burglary not in California). It is his first offense for that, but he had been arrested several times as a juvenile for possession of small quantities of heroin. It is discovered that he attempted the burglary to get money to buy heroin. What would you recommend?

A) Imprisonment to the full extent of the law with no possibility for probation, as there should be zero tolerance for his drug-related crime
B) Treatment for acute psychosis, as he never would have committed the burglary if heroin had not damaged his rational thinking ability
C) Imprisonment for the burglary and treatment for the heroin addiction, with the possibility for probation
D) A stern warning but not imprisonment for the attempted burglary and treatment for the heroin addiction