Discuss the problems associated with definitions of drugs


Discuss the below:

Q1. 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).

Q2. "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).

Q3. Distinguish between pharmacological, economically compulsive, and systemic types of drug-related violence. Give a specific example for each type. (min 350 words).

Q4. 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).

 

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