Category: School
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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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Power and Politics in American Indian History: Origins
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-22 Power and Politics in American Indian History Response 3 Nick Estes, Our History is the Future (2019), Chapter 2, Origins The North American white ethnostate has seen several iterations – currently it’s called the United States – but whether we’re talking about the current iteration or one of the previous ones, it…
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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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Power and Politics in American Indian History: Money, Mortgages, and the Conquest of America
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-22 Power and Politics in American Indian History Response 2 K-Sue Park, “Money, Mortgages, and the Conquest of America” (2016, 1006-1035) 29 pages The article starts out by describing a change that happened in the jurisprudence of early America; land became liable for debts. (Park 1) This change had wide-reaching side-effects and set…
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Power and Politics in American Indian History: Land Acknowledgement
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-18 Power and Politics in American Indian History Forum 1 Real estate developers are digging up and destroying sacred indigenous sites to replace them with temples to capitalism, erasing history and indigenous culture in the process, according to the speakers. This is just one example where young people today are not just being…
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Nick Estes: Siege
CJ Trowbridge 2020-06-18 Power and Politics in American Indian History Response 1: Siege The story begins with a declaration of war on the KXL pipeline by the president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in March of 2014. (Estes 33) The tribe is concerned with the potential dangers to their water supply if the planned…
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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…