Category: HED315 Drugs and Society
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Drugs and Society: Harm Reduction
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-30 Drugs and Society Section 10 Reading Response: Harm Reduction Swapping Politics for Science When the drug czar calls for an end to the war on drugs, it’s clearly the start of a new era. Obama lifted the federal ban on needle exchanges in 2010 all of the top brass in the Obama…
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“The daily hustle for heroin often forces users into other illegal activity”
CJ Trowbridge Drugs and Society 2020-06-30 Reading Response: Heroin and Social Problems “The daily hustle for heroin often forces users into other illegal activity, like petty drug dealing, prostitution and burglary, to support their habit, and creates an expensive, unproductive revolving door between prison and the street. Methadone, covered by insurance, frees people from this…
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Drugs and Society: Meth
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-26 Drugs and Society Section 9 Reading Response: Meth Frontline: the meth epidemic Meth can be made from cold medicines Cold medicines are a $3b industry Cold medicine industrial complex opposes restrictions on cold medicine Meth can also be made from many other things Common ingredients found anywhere Meth is a major factor…
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Drugs and Society: Cocaine
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-23 Drugs and Society Section 8 – Reading Response: Cocaine coke: the history and truth of cocaine Cocaine is snorted, smoked, or injected Coocaine is addictive Cocaine is often cut with many other things Biopharmacology Reuptake inhibitor for serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine Second most popular drug in the world after marijuana Natural substance found…
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Drugs and Society: Opiates
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-16 Drugs and Society Reaction Paper – Section 7 inside the story of america’s 19th century opiate addiction Morphine was seen as a wonder drug which could immediately ameliorate many common symptoms in the short-term Morphine quickly created an addiction epidemic. By 1895, morphine addiction was commonplace in America. Benjamin Franklin took opium…
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Drugs and Society: Marijuana
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-16 Drugs and Society Reaction Paper – Section 6 Illegal drugs and how they got that way: marijuana Most drugs were previously legal and later banned 20 million Americans have been incarcerated for marijuana since it was banned At the time, Marijuana was growing all over the country as a weed and had…
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Drugs and Society: Hallucinogens
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-11 Drugs and Society Reading Response – Section 4 Illegal drugs and how they got that way – hallucinogens All currently illegal drugs were recently legal All cultures have parties, usually including the use of drugs Ecstasy fills an unmet need for connection, empathy, connectedness, and openness between people in a hostile culture,…
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Drugs and Society: Legal Drugs
CJ Trowbridge Drugs and Society 2020-06-09 Section 3 Reading Response treat drug users as you would want to be treated We are all drug users. Coffee, alcohol, cigarettes, weed, Viagra, ecstasy, antidepressants, anti-anxiety pills and more: people are using these drugs on a weekly or even daily basis. Coffee helps me start my day and…
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Drugs and Society: Public Health and Harm Reduction
CJ Trowbridge HED 315 2020-06-04 Reaction Paper: Unit 2 Reducing Drug Related Harm (Powerpoint) Course goal: To give participants the opportunity to examine drug-related harm, and help participants gain a basic understanding of how harm reduction principles, policy and practice work together to address that harm. Harm reduction is an approach that aims to reduce…
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“The drug war is the international projection of a domestic American psychosis.”
The drug war is the international projection of a domestic American psychosis. Focusing just on drug use and not on the causes for addiction, I was struck by this line from Ethan Nadelmann’s Ted Talk. It reminded me of arguments made by founding Queer Theorist Michel Foucault in his landmark book Discipline and Punish. Foucault…