Q1.  Drugs are against the law. Anything to do with drugs is .    Q2.  Doing drugs is not one’s decision alone. The consequences to your decision will make others .    Q3.  Besides gangsters and crime, the money one spends on drugs also to fear and poverty and pain that you would never dream of.    Q4.  The money one spends on doing drugs will support the horrific even though one is not directly involved.

Select all that applyWhich of the following are reasons that people in the United States have for wanting to keep illegal drugs legal?Multiple select question.Legalizing drugs might expose more people to abuse and dependence.Drugs would be more socially acceptable if they were legalized.Keeping drugs illegal will help the country's economy.Allowing easier access to drugs might increase drug use among children and teenagers.

Which of these statements explains the relationship between drug-use and deviance?Question 3Select one:a.Drug-use is only deviant if it is observed.b.All drug-use is deviant.c.Drug-use is deviant if society judges it to be deviant.d.Drug-use is deviant if it breaks the law.

The relationship between drugs and crime is:Multiple choice question.complexnonexistentexaggeratedlimited

The three readings this week all focus on the history of drugs (or alcohol specifically) in human society. Which of the following statements best reflects a key message that we can see resulting from these three readings?Question 10Select one:a.Drug misuse is as common as drug use and the two go hand-in-hand. Although we have a long history of drug use across cultures for social and religious purposes our most recent trends suggest that we need to reduce misuse by taking an abstinence approach (not taking any drugs).b.Drug use is common throughout history as is drug misuse which is a growing concern. The only way to reduce drug misuse is to reduce overall drug use by introducing legislation that targets the cultures most likely to use drugs.c.Drugs are here to stay and that makes sense given our history. There is not really much we can do about the harms that they cause. We’ve tried to reduce harm with a ‘War on Drugs’ approach but this hasn’t worked so let’s just avoid tinkering.d.Drug use is common and has been an accepted part of social and religious life across many cultures. However, lax legislation and social rules can also make drug misuse common (regardless of culture) and this can be very destructive.

This week we’ve covered the nature of drugs and their place in human society for countless millennia. The reading by Nicholson identifies one of the key conclusions we can make concerning our efforts to control drug use over the last century.What was this conclusion?One of the key conclusion the authors make is that:Question 9Select one:The current approach could be described as a half-century of lost opportunities. We have spent the better part of 50 years trying to control normal behaviour.Public policy should be focused on criminalization of drug user populations.Drug users and drug misusers are technically the same population so we can target them effectively with a single policy approach.The global 'war on drugs' was an efficient and effective use of resources.