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The chapter defines a drug as a...... |
Any chemical substance other than food or water that affects the mind or body |
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How a society views any drug is affected by....... |
The laws at a given time, which a radical or ethnic category the public links the drug, and cultural attitudes and practices involving the drug |
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Which drug is most widely used in the United States...... |
Alcohol |
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Amphetamines were first developed for the medical treatment of...... |
Personality disorders and obesity |
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Alcoholism is defined as....... |
An addiction to alcohol |
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The most widely used drug in the United States is probably...... |
Caffeine |
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The typical cocaine user is...... |
Fairly affluent |
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Hallucinogens are..... |
Stimulants |
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What is used to refer to using any illegal substances or to using a legal substance such as a prescription drug in a way that violates accepted medical practice..... |
Drug abuse |
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What policy would remove the current criminal penalties that punish the manufacturing,sale,and personal use of the drug..... |
Decriminalization |
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Which of the following concepts refers to a physical or psychological craving for a drug...... |
Addiction |
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When family members try to earn extra money, to help keep a house, or directly provide drugs to an abuser in an effort to keep peace they are engaged in........ |
Codependency |
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If you take a drug to control a seizure you are using a drug for........ |
Therapeutic needs |
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Until the early 1900's which popular "brain tonic" included cocaine as one of the ingredients ....... |
Coca-cola |
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which concept refers to efforts to stop drugs from moving across this country's boarder...... |
interdiction |
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What concept refers to a state in which a persons body has adjusted to the regular use of a drug...... |
Dependency |
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which is not a stimulant.... |
alcohol |
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of all prescriptions drugs the most often abused is........ |
Pain killers |
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The organization Alcoholics Anonymous........ |
views alcoholism as an illness that cab be successfully treated |
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In the united states, what is by far the, the single greatest preventable cause of death....... |
cigarette smoking |
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a drug is any chemical substance other then food or water that........ |
Affects the mind and body |
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Methadone is.......... |
a synthetic form of heroin to treat heroin addicts |
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Binge drinking is what......... |
when you have at least five or more drink in a row at least once in the past two weeks |
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What is correctly categorized as a stimulant...... |
Caffeine |
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The social conflict approach shows us....... |
which drugs are legal and which are not has a lot to do with social power |
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The most stigmatized people in our society may well be....... |
The mentally ill |
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Health is defined by the world health organization as...... |
A state of complete physical, mental, and social well being |
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The number of years, on average, people in a society can expect to live is referred to as....... |
Life expectancy at birth |
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An illness that has a long term development is....... |
A chronic illness |
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what is not categorized as a Chronic disease...... |
Typhiod |
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What is a disease that strikes suddenly..... |
An acute disease |
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social epidemiology is the study of....... |
The study of how health and disease are distributed throughout a society's population |
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Which economy does the government control most of the activity........ |
Socialist economics |
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A medical care system in which the government owns and operates most medical facilities and employs most physicians is what....... |
Socialized Medicine |
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what organizations seek to improve wages and working conditions through various strategies........ |
Labor unions |
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what is true about work........ |
for almost everyone work is an important source of income |
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perhaps the most important reason that companies have moved industrial production abroad is...... |
lower wages paid to workers in other nations |
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what is not a quality of work associated with McDonaldization....... |
Creativity |
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expansion of economic activity around the world in little regard to national borders........ |
Globslization |
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Glass ceiling is what...... |
Barrier involving mostly women in the workplace preventing them form moving up |
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The work characterized as Mcjobs........ |
Encourages robot like approach to work |
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share a house with 2 children and considered as a family is what...... |
A family of affinity |
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Blended families is what....... |
concept where families with children have some combination of biological parents and stepparents |
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sharing of a household by unmarried couple is what...... |
Cohabitation |
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A surrogate motherhood is what....... |
where one women carries and bears a child for another woman |
