PUBHLTH 147 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Drug Abuse Resistance Education, Crack Cocaine, Reinforcement
20 Sep 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Drug courts and how they work: eligible drug-addicted persons may be sent to drug court in lieu of traditional justice system case processing. Drug courts keep individuals in treatment long enough for it to work, while supervising them closely. Pros and cons: pros, reduction in crime rate as many addicts get dragged into the crime world by their addiction, drug dealers or other addicts. In their hurry to get a person back into the society, the drug court officials might neglect the level of stress the person can take leading to recidivism due to stress. Substances theories of why people use: structural-functionalist perspective, conflict perspective, symbolic interactionist perspective, biological and psychological theories. In the 1940s, marijuana was used by minorities and carried severe criminal penalties: after white middle-class college students began to use marijuana in the. 1970s, the government reduced penalties for its use.
