Chapter 13 Socy 302

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Drug.

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Any substance that affects the structure orfunction of the body when ingested

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Politics of Drugs

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The labeling of some drugs as licit and others as illicit depends on the definition of drugs by the most powerful interest groups, which are able to get their definition incorporated into the law

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Psychoactive drug.

Back 3

Chemical that alters the perceptions and/or moods of people who take it.

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Gateway drug.

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The belief that the use of a drug willlead to the use of other hard drugs like heroin andcocaine.

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Moral panic.

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Moral panics occur when a socialproblem is defined as a threat to societal values andinterests. Moral panics typically involve the exaggerationof a social problem; the public response to it isalso exaggerated. .

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Psychopharmacology

Back 6

Science of drugs that affectthe mind.

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Restorative drug.

Back 7

Chemical that heals a traumatizedpart of the body.

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Additive drug.

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Chemical that improves performance.

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Interdiction.

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Public policy of stopping the flow ofdrugs into the United States by guarding the bordersand by curtailing the creation, processing, and distributingof drugs in other countries.

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Heroin maintenance.

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British approach to heroinaddiction that treats addicts as sick rather than ascriminal; thus, addicts are placed under the jurisdictionof physicians who administer drugs to theirpatients.

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Methadone maintenance.

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Used for heroin maintenance,this treatment provides a heroin substitute(methadone) to addicts under medical supervision.

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Decriminalization of drugs.

Back 12

Legalization of drugs.