SOC 2070 Study Guide - Crack Cocaine, Methamphetamine, Centre For Addiction And Mental Health

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Seek to reveal the causes of drug use. Drug use is the dependent variable, the variable that needs to be explained. The independent variable is the cause of the drug use. Drug use could covary with other variables, but not necessarily cause them. Seek to answer the question why are certain substances considered illegal/deviant and others legal? . Drug use comes close to being universal, both worldwide and throughout history. The inuit may be the only society on earth that did not use mind-altering substances. Subjective dimension: the public"s feeling or attitude toward drug use, and the individuals who use drugs. Objective: what drugs do physically to humans, how frequently they are used, their impact on society. 1930: united states newspapers and magazines publish hundreds of sensationalistic articles that detailed the horrors of marijuana use. 1960: thousands of news accounts are published detailing. 1986: drug use and abuse explodes as a social problem in the.

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