Describe what those eras were and which drugs tended to be used by arrestees during each.

DISCUSSION 9
Describe what those eras were and which drugs tended to be used by arrestees during each.
Given the fact that heroin is one of the least often used of the illicit drugs, do you think that its use generates more hysteria and concern than is warranted by its objective harm and danger? Or do you think there is a legitimate basis for the fear and concern? Explain your answer.
If you could press a button and magically make all the narcotics on the earth disappear, would you do it? Why or why not? Justify your answer.
EXERCISE 9
Assignment Prompt
In the United States, addiction to and abuse of drugs in general, and narcotics specifically, has waxed and waned since the nineteenth century, with periods of much greater use alternating with periods of much less use. Can you imagine a time in the future when drug abuse, including addiction to the narcotics, simply declines to zero? Why or why not?
DISCUSSION 10
Where do drugs come from? Experts have identified three models of drug production. What are they? How do they give us clues to the illicit drug production and distribution system? Do paths of drug distribution change over time? Why or why not? What determines where drugs come from and where they go?
Which drugs are most likely to be produced within the borders of the United States? Why?
EXERCISE 10
Assignment Prompt
This chapter suggested how race and social class or socioeconomic status (SES) can influence the likelihood of arrest. Are discrepancies in arrest for black versus white sellers and users, and lower and working class versus middle-class sellers and users, solely due to race and class bias and discrimination, or are other factors at work—for instance, use and purchase patterns and law enforcement-to-seller-and-user points of contact—that might influence these discrepancies?
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