Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action
Video and Multimedia
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Description: The streets are flush with Afghan heroin, and what people do with it is hard to watch. Suburban kids experiment and then get hooked on heroin; their parents end up paying for their habit. From Oslo to a shooting gallery in the U.S. Midwest, people admit they have given up a normal life for heroin. National Geographic excerpt.
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives explain alcohol and drug problems. Examine the pros and cons of the drug legalization movement.
Description: CNBC report on the marijuana industry in Colorado, one of three states where it can be used legally.
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives explain alcohol and drug problems. Identify the correlates of Ecstasy use among college students.
Description: A role-play by college students on the desire for, and reasons not to use MDMA as a concert drug.
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives explain alcohol and drug problems.
Description: The emotional toll of addiction that began pain killers told by two Latter Day Saints men who eventually returned to a drug-free life with family support.
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Description: Goes way beyond the egg in the frying pan to describe heroin addiction.
Audio
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives explain alcohol and drug problems. Describe how the social structure regulates drinking.
Description: From trying alcohol to blacking out, there’s a high tolerance for drinking even for youth. Personal freedom and self-acceptance was the key to getting sober. Recovery can be a full time job.
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives explain alcohol and drug problems. Examine the pros and cons of the drug legalization movement.
Description: Whites are starting to be arrested at higher rates for drug use, but Black men are in prison in a higher percentage than the percent of use in the Black community. Meth use is more common among Whites and Latinos.
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives explain alcohol and drug problems. Examine the pros and cons of the drug legalization movement.
Description: It’s not what it ought to be. Unfair sentences are routine. Questions on history: “How We Got Here.”
Web Resources
Learning Objective: Describe how the social structure regulates drinking. Identify the correlates of Ecstasy use among college students. Assess the theory that college students mature out of heavy or binge drinking.
Description: The home page for the National Institute on Drug Abuse. find descriptions, statistics on drug use, including marijuana, heroin and rave drugs.
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives explain alcohol and drug problems. Identify the correlates of Ecstasy use among college students. Assess the theory that college students mature out of heavy or binge drinking.
Description: Office of National Drug Control Policy website.
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives explain alcohol and drug problems. Describe how the social structure regulates drinking.
Description: Fact sheet on the prevalence of alcohol use, diseases, and efforts to diminish harm.
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives explain alcohol and drug problems. Examine the pros and cons of the drug legalization movement.
Description: Why are we still fighting the war on drugs, when we can’t even keep them out of prisons? Could it be that those who fight the war are fighting to keep their jobs? Or that banning some drugs, like marijuana or steep sentencing crack cocaine, reflect racial bigotry.
Learning Objective: Explain how the different sociological perspectives explain alcohol and drug problems. Examine the pros and cons of the drug legalization movement.
Description: Assessing the issue of drug possession as punishable with a prison sentence.