Lyon & Welsh (2019) Reading on Drugs, Violence, and Systemic Crime
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What are the three possible links outlined by Paul Goldstein (1985) between drugs and violence?

  • Social violence, economic violence, and psychological violence
  • Physical violence, emotional violence, and mental violence
  • Systemic violence, compulsive violence, and psychosomatic violence
  • Stomach violence, economic compulsive violence, and psychopharmacological violence (correct)
  • What is the dimension of systemic crime that concerns the overall operation of the gang or cartel involved in the drug trade?

  • Financial
  • Third party
  • Organizational (correct)
  • Transactional
  • What is the major purpose of economic compulsive crime according to the text?

  • To gain control over illegal markets
  • To support an existing drug habit (correct)
  • To establish a legal source of income
  • To eliminate competition from other drug users
  • What factor contributes to the financial cost of using psychoactive drugs according to the text?

    <p>The level of drug use and cost of the drug</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How do employment programs appear to reduce economic compulsive crime according to the text?

    <p>By providing a legal source of income for drug users</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of offending behavior does psychopharmacological crime encompass according to the text?

    <p>Behavior due to acute and chronic effects of using psychoactive substances</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the 'reverse psychopharmacological effect' as mentioned in the text?

    <p>Reduced likelihood of criminal behavior due to psychoactive substances</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the 'self-medication hypothesis' propose according to the text?

    <p>Individuals take psychoactive drugs to suppress pre-existing feelings of anger and aggression</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why do employment programs reduce economic compulsive crime?

    <p>'Employment programs' provide a legal source of income for drug users</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main purpose of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) mentioned in the text?

    <p>To provide consistent language and description for psychological disorder diagnoses</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the DSM-5 recognize in relation to a single diagnosis for a specific substance use disorder?

    <p>It better aligns with the patient’s experience of symptoms</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of dependence is based on the idea that drug-taking behaviors continue to avoid negative consequences like withdrawal symptoms?

    <p>Physical Dependence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which category of addiction has been recognized by the DSM-5?

    <p>Substance-related addictive disorders</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does research suggest about gambling disorder?

    <p>It manifests similar clinical criteria and treatment as substance use disorders</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which group is provided with consistent language and description regarding diagnoses for psychological disorders according to the text?

    <p>Clinicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, and others</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of drug tolerance develops over repeated exposures to a drug over an extended period?

    <p>Protracted tolerance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the study of the effects of drugs on behavior called?

    <p>Psychopharmacology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What involves a behavioral adjustment by the person to compensate for the effects of a drug?

    <p>Behavioral tolerance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the formal definition of substance disorders in North America given in?

    <p>The DSM-5</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the general difference between drug use and drug abuse according to the text?

    <p>Negative consequences associated with use</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of drug dependence is based on the craving for the positive effects associated with using drugs?

    <p>Psychological dependence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is defined as an overwhelming involvement with using a drug, in which the person feels a need to have it, develops a tolerance to it, and has a strong tendency to resume use of it after stopping for a while?

    <p>Drug addiction</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does dispositional tolerance occur as a result of?

    <p>An increase in metabolic rate of a drug with regular use</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the three sets of factors that influence the experience that humans have from taking drugs?

    <p>Biological, psychological, and social factors</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the DSM-5 classify substance-use disorders based on?

    <p>Drug tolerance and withdrawal symptoms</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the major purpose of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) as mentioned in the text?

    <p>To provide a formal criteria system for diagnosing and treating mental disorders</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of dependence is based on the idea that drug-taking behaviors continue in order to avoid negative consequences like withdrawal symptoms?

    <p>Physical Dependence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the DSM-5 recognize in relation to a single diagnosis for a specific substance use disorder?

    <p>That it better aligns with the patient’s experience of symptoms</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the dimension of systemic crime that concerns the overall operation of the gang or cartel involved in the drug trade?

    <p>Systemic crime dimension</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What involves a behavioral adjustment by the person to compensate for the effects of a drug?

    <p>Behavioral tolerance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What category of addiction has been recognized by the DSM-5?

    <p>Behavioural addictions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of drug tolerance refers to the phenomenon where the body quickly adapts to the effects of a drug during the course of a single exposure?

    <p>Acute tolerance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of drug dependence is based on the craving for the positive effects associated with using drugs?

    <p>Psychological dependence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the study of the effects of drugs on behavior called?

    <p>Psychopharmacology</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of drug tolerance occurs when the regular use of a given drug results in an increase in metabolism rate of the drug, requiring users to consume greater quantities to maintain a certain level?

    <p>Functional tolerance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What involves a behavioral adjustment by the person, in experience in using drugs, compensates for its effects?

    <p>Behavioral tolerance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the general difference between drug use and drug abuse?

    <p>Negative consequences associated with abuse</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which part of the central nervous system becomes less sensitive to a drug's effects?

    <p>Brain</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What occurs when the body undergoes adaptive changes in response to persistent drug exposure over an extended period?

    <p>Protracted tolerance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the three possible links outlined by Paul Goldstein (1985) between drugs and violence?

    <p>Pharmacological, societal, individual</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does dispositional tolerance occur as a result of?

    <p>Metabolic changes in the body due to drug use</p> Signup and view all the answers

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