03 Aug Drug & Substance Use and Abuse
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The training seminar has set up an Internet Discussion Board for the participants to discuss issues related to licit and illicit drugs. You are asked to begin the discussion by posting on cultural differences in the consumption and banning of drugs. As an example, the supervisor mentions that some religions have prohibitions against caffeine, smoking tobacco, or alcohol.
You are asked to consider the following questions:
How long have human societies been using psychoactive drugs? (Give several examples)
Select either nicotine or alcohol as an example, and briefly describe the drug’s effects on the brain, behavior, and person’s health.
Under what circumstances do you think a drug should be limited or banned? For example, do you think any drug that harms health should be banned or any drug that is addictive should be banned? Explain.
Do you think that it would be a good idea for the United States to completely ban alcohol or nicotine? Explain.
Provide 3 scholarly source. Use the Internet and Library databases in your research
