CH202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cannabis Smoking, Gateway Drug Theory, Morphine
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Correlation: rap music & violence, country music & suicide, asking for divine intervention when drowning, and getting rescued. Survey findings: correlation: cannabis smoking is correlated to low grades in high schools o possible causes . Smoking cannabis causes the user to get lower grades. Low grades cause high school students to smoke cannabis something else cause low grades and cannabis smoking. Antecedents = a factor that occurs before an event such as the initiation of drug use. The drug itself can determine whether or not drug use continues. Even a single episode of drug use causes long-lasting or even permanent changes to the brain. These changes may make continued drug use essential. Changing views in society about psychoactive drug use. Rub cocaine on their teeth and then made them drink opium laced with morphine (soothing syrup) Used to be able to buy heroin from a catalogue. Changing attitudes towards drugs results in changes in the law.
