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Class: SOC - Social Problems; Subject: Sociology; University: Lord Fairfax Community College; Term: Forever 1989;
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Any chemical substance other than food or water that affects the mind or body. TERM 2
DEFINITION 2 A physical or psychological craving for a drug. TERM 3
DEFINITION 3 A state in which a person's body has adjusted to regular use of a drug. TERM 4
DEFINITION 4 Drugs that increase alertness, altering a person's mood by increasing energy. TERM 5
DEFINITION 5 Drugs that slow the operation of the central nervous system.
Addiction to alcohol. TERM 7
DEFINITION 7 Behavior on the part of othersthat helps a substance abuser continue the abuse. TERM 8
DEFINITION 8 Removing the current criminal penalties that punish the manufacturing, sale, and personal use of drugs. Policy of allowing these substances to be legally available TERM 9
DEFINITION 9 People who favor the greatest possible individual freedom. TERM 10
DEFINITION 10 Restricted the sale of Cocaine and Heroin.
When used often or in large doses When people are experiencing serious trouble - they turn to alcohol and other drugs to dull pain of living TERM 17
DEFINITION 17 Peer pressure may lead to young people smoking cigarettes or older people drinking cocktails. TERM 18
DEFINITION 18 The use of any illegal substance or the use of a legal substance (such as a prescribed drug) in a way that violates accepted medical practice. TERM 19
DEFINITION 19 People who usea drug manage to function well in everyday life, but people who abusea drug suffer physical, mental, or social harm. TERM 20
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DEFINITION 23 In a study, found that wives of alcoholics commonly experience problems ranging from income insecurity to outright violence. children living in these households may lose the ability to trust others due to the fact that the abuser has let them down so many times. children grow up too soon, taking over responsibilities not performed by the older drug abuser and sacrificing their own personal needs. These children may drop out of school, get into trouble with the law, and may abuse drugs themselves. TERM 24
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DEFINITION 25 Stopping the movement of drugs across the United States border. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Customs Service Border Patrol U.S. Military
Reform Society support a great deal of personal freedom claim drug use is the product of too little economic opportunity and too much hopelessness solution => increase economic opportunity and decrease poverty so that fewer people would turn to drugs in the first place tolerant view of "soft" drugs and favor decriminalization call for less emphasis on police, courts, and prisons and more emphasis on programs of drug education and treatment TERM 32
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DEFINITION 33 Enacted toreduce the disparity in sentencing for crack possession versus cocaine possession.
