Exam 11: Drug Use and Delinquency

______ drugs are central nervous system depressants. ​

Introverted people may use drugs as an escape from real or imagined feelings of inferiority. ​

Drugs used by athletes and body builders to gain muscle bulk and strength are called _____. ​

Explain the concept of persistent offenders. ​

When first isolated in 1860, _____ became a staple of patent medicines. ​

As opposed to other drugs, recently, crack cocaine use has been increasing in recent years. ​

Enacted in 1992, the _____ Amendment requires states to enact and enforce laws restricting the sale of tobacco products to youths under the age of 18. ​

______ is a nonaddictive substance that satisfies the cravings caused by heroin. ​

When growing up in poverty and a disorganized urban environment is used as a reason for drug use it is called social disorganization. ​

Even if there are serious problems associated with the surveys of drug use by adolescents, these problems would not affect the measurement of change. ​

As a general rule, drug abuse appears to be a type of delinquent behavior and not a cause of delinquency. ​

Drug abusers are also believed to exhibit psychopathic or sociopathic behavior characteristics, forming what is called a/an _____. ​

What is harm reduction? Explain this approach. ​

According to the text, _____ produce short-term euphoria followed by a period of disorientation, slurred speech, and drowsiness. ​

_____ are lab-created synthetics that are designed to get around existing drug laws. ​

Alcohol-related deaths far outnumber deaths resulting from all other illegal drugs combined. ​

Explain social disorganization as a rationale for drug abuse.

Drug dealers who sell the majority of drugs in parks, schools, or other public places are called ______. ​

When an adolescent's use of drugs occurs because those he or she knows uses drugs, it is called _____. ​

What are the results of ingesting heroin? ​