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Week 3 – Discussion
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Issues
Behind Addictive Drug Use |
Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read
the required chapters from the text and review the required articles for this
week. Humans have engaged in psychoactive drug use, sometimes in formal
(ceremonial) settings and sometimes recreationally, since before recorded
history. It has only been in the last century or so that abuse and addiction
have become large-scale problems. Using the literature and your own insights
into these issues, formulate an argument as to why the problem has reached its
current scale. In your discussion, evaluate the employment of psychoactive
drugs from the aspects of a risk-benefits analysis and ethical considerations
such as the risk of addiction versus the cost of punitive action. Also explain
purely pharmacological issues such as pharmacokinetics and routes of drug
administration and dose. If needed, include factors such as supply, cultural
attitudes to drug use, and the context of drug use.
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