Some critics of the current drug policy believe that the government colludes with and protects drug dealers in order to keep the public "doped up," passive, and politically inactive and that if the authorities were allowed to arrest and imprison the traffickers at the top of the distribution hierarchy, drug selling would be brought to a halt and the drug trade would go out of business. Comment, making use of facts and details that are discussed in this chapter.

What will be an ideal response?


Answers will vary.

Social Work & Human Services

You might also like to view...

Acknowledges the breadth of human experiences, instead of conceptualizing social relations and identities separately in terms of either race, class, gender, age, or sexual orientation

What will be an ideal response?

Social Work & Human Services

According to Piaget’s stage theory of cognitive development, what stage characterizes children between the ages of 2 and 7?

a. Formal operations b. Concrete operations c. Intuitive operations d. Preoperational

Social Work & Human Services

A social worker find that, in relating to a client, she/ he is constantly reminded of her/ his relationship with her/ his brother. This is an example of:

A. Therapeutic alliance B. Counter- transference C. Transference D. A mental block

Social Work & Human Services

The author emphasizes that charges of media bias are commonly lodged by observers with particular approaches or perspectives. Which of the following is the author regarding as bias with respect to the media reporting the drug story? The extent to which these stories:

A. subvert the Marxist agenda and delay the proletariat revolution. B. fail to contribute to patriotic fervor. C. stimulate an interest among the young in trying and using illicit psychoactive drugs. D. do not accurately reflect the evidence gathered and the conclusions reached by scientists. E. undermine the readers' faith in God.

Social Work & Human Services