Addiction & Subs Abuse
Answer each question in a minimum 300 words, completely and fully for full credit. Source credits and the required Reference list attached at the end of each answer do no count toward its word length. Answers are to be based on the course textbook and outside academic sources (excluding other course textbooks, encyclopedias such as Encarte and Wikipedia, About.com and Ask.com type websites that synthesize source information for users, magazines, news websites, blogs, etc.).
Essay answers must be more than 3 or 4 brief sentences, but kept within the bounds of a short-answer essay exam (i.e., 2-3 paragraphs). All your writing must be in your own words. Paraphrase (restate what you read) rather than copying material from the course textbook or the Internet. No copying is permitted in this course and doing so will result in zero points on the exam. Answers must be written in narrative, paragraph form. Lists and/or sentence fragments also will not receive points.
You must make connections to and properly cite the textbook in each of your answers including page numbers.
Drugs, Behavior, and Modern Society, 8th Ed by Levinthal, Charles E
1. Describe three major features of PCP intoxication that are significantly different from the effects of other hallucinogens.
2. By what criteria do we say that a drug is being misused or abused?
3. Why do you think there is an unusually intense interest in the effects of in utero exposure to cocaine, when the evidence is so much stronger with respect to the most widely available licit drugs, alcohol, and nicotine?
4.Contrast the adverse effects of the acute toxicity and the chronic toxicity of drugs.
5.What types of illicit drugs are most likely to result in an Emergency Room visit?
6.Can LSD result in drug dependence? Why or why not?
7.Discuss the structure and the functioning of neurons.
8.Examine and describe many of the factors that influence drug-taking behavior.
9.What could be the various factors that are responsible for the effects of drugs on the mind and body?
10.What are some of the positive effects of marijuana use? What are some of the negative effects?