- How do you define psychoactive and addictive drugs? Follow the links below and list five drugs that the US Government identifies as the most addictive drugs. Why are they defined as the most addictive? Is there anyone or more of them that the US Government does not seek to limit its use?
- List the main Goals and Objectives of the National Drug Control Office? List five of these goals and explain their rationale. Specifically, why does the US government feel that the use of illicit drugs such as Cocaine and Opium ( Morphine) should be controlled?
- How does the US Government propose to control the supply and use of or the spread of illicit drugs in the USA?
- Identify five (Using MEDIC 8) document social and psychological effects of drug use. Do you think that they justify the War on Drugs? Why or Why not?
Module III
- When did illicit Drug use attract National attention in the USA?
- Was there any debate about how illegal drug use should be considered as socially deviant or threats to National Security?
- Compare and Contrast these same questions for the United States and Sweden? Specifically, how did Sweden go from War on Drugs to Harm Reduction and how did the USA go from Crime Reduction to War on Drugs?
Final Exam
- Identify at least three socially influential public figures that have used cocaine and or Opium in the past. Describe these influential social figures used Cocaine and or Opium in the past.
- Who are the Parsees of India? Describe how the Parsees and the British profited from the distribution of Opium in World Trade?
- Explain the possible impacts of legalization on the market for currently illicit drugs.
- When did illicit Drug Use attract National attention in the USA?
- Was there any debate about how illegal drug use should be considered as socially deviant or threats to National Security?
- Compare and Contrast these same questions for the United States and Sweden? Specifically, how did Sweden go from War on Drugs to Harm reduction and how did the USA go from Crime Reduction to War on Drugs?
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