Addiction & Subs Abuse Short Essay Questions
Answer each question in a minimum 350 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.
1. Define behavioral tolerance and explain how this phenomenon might account for a drug-related overdose fatality, even though the dose might have fallen short of the lethal
range(min 400 words).
2. "What's new is sometimes really old." Discuss this statement in light of changing patterns of drug-taking behavior over the last 50 years, using specific examples from the textbook. (min 350 words).
3. Distinguish between pharmacological, economically compulsive, and systemic types of drug-related violence. Give a specific example for each type. (min 350 words).
4. Discuss the problems associated with definitions of drugs. Offer a reasonable definition, then give an example of a substance that might fall into a "gray area" within that definition. How might that substance qualify as a drug and how it might not? (min 350 words).