Category: Ethnic Studies
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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…
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Drugs and Society: Intro
CJ Trowbridge HED 315 – Drugs and Society 2020-06-01 Reaction Points: Unit 1 ethan nadelman’s ted talk Effects of the war on drugs Created a $300b global black market for drugs More drug use than ever Same failure as the prohibition on alcohol Treaties emphasize criminalization rather than treatment Most money spend around the world…