PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Controlled Substances Act, Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, Marihuana Tax Act Of 1937
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Drugs that alter behavior, thinking, perception, and/or memory. Seeing animals humans fermenting fruit to make same effects. Alkaloids = alkaline constituents of plant extracts. Took a huge population use to begin looking at addiction. Freud often gave out cocaine to help with pain. Later implications for prescribers (less over the counter) >0. 5% alcohol (1/10th of typical beer) illegal. Leary v the united states (1969) *** don"t need to know case *** Mostly reactions to current events, not science. In some cases, access to scientists is inhibited (mdpv, marijuana) Often influenced by prejudice, leading to unbalanced enforcement. Evidence-based revision must first overcome charged public emotion. Create intergenerational cycle of abuse, then need for treatment. We simply don"t have the resources or knowledge for treatment. Drug laws do not curb availability or prevent drug use/abuse. It"s a fact: americans use drugs (and so does the rest of the world) Most controlled substances can be acquired, if desired.
