FOR WIZARD KIM

Essay Questions

1. Define behavioral tolerance and explain how this phenomenon might account for a drug-related overdose fatality, even though the dose might have fallen short of the lethal range.

2. Distinguish between pharmacological, economically compulsive, and systemic types of drug-related violence. Give a specific example for each type. 

3. What's new is sometimes really old." Discuss this statement in light of changing patterns of drug-taking behavior over the last 50 years, using specific examples from the textbook. 

4. Discuss the problems associated with definitions of drugs. Offer a reasonable definition, then give an example of a substance that might fall into a "gray area" within that definition. How might that substance qualify as a drug and how it might not?