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Week 3 Discussion
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 pharma cokinetics 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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