-ethnobotanist: studies the relationship between people and plants

-ethnomycologist: studies the relationship between people and fungi 

-toxicologist use this to figure out how toxic a certain drug is

-bad parenting

-they become easy prey

-moth: datura plant

-birds: berries

-cows: locoweed

-siegal: acquired, not innate.. but very natural, universal, basic, and irrepressible.

-samorini: triggered by exposure

-weil: innate

-either pursuing knowledge

-for pleasure

-used to reverse heroin overdosage

-use of drugs has been a feature of human life in all of history

-ubiquity of drug use represents human appetite

-not socially/culturally based

-comes from neurophysical structure of the brain

-its a biological characteristic that is omnipresent: across time and cultures

-explains why when we're little we spin, choke, or tickle.

-dont lie, it ruins your credibility.

-dont introduce it.

-highs are present in the nervous system

-drugs give you an excuse to notice them

-differ in superficial ways

-set of assumptions that govern perceptions/understandings/actions

-false and exaggerated

-chemical molecular structure of drugs

-overwhelmingly and solely determine drug outcomes/effects and human behavior.

-presents a too stable method of drug determinism that is highly reductionistic.

-ignores empirical evidence that drug effects and outcomes of complex setting and interactions.

-pseudoscience of drug classification.. only need to know the chemical structure of the drug and you can tell if its good.

-isnt true

-biological structure

-journalism

-drug enforcement agencies

-school drug education

-supply

-motivation

-smoking

-level of use and probability of harm

-abuse: a maladaptive pattern of substance use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by the following within a 12 month period

-recurrent substance use in a failure to fulfill major role obligations at work, school, or home.

-recurrent substance use in situations in which it is physically hazardous

-recurrent substance.. related elgal problems

-continued substance use despite having persistant or recurrent social or itnerpersonal problems

-maladaptive pattern of substance abuse, leading to the clinically significantly impairment or distress, mainifested by 3 or more of the folliwng, occuring within 12 months

1. tolerance

-a need for increased amounts of the substance to get desired effect

-diminished effect with continued use of the same amount of the substance

2. withdrawl

3. taken in larger amounts or over a longer period

4. persistant desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control substance abuse.

5. great deal of time spent in activities necessary to obtain the substance, use the substance, or recover from its effects

6. important social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced

7. the subtance use is contained despite knowledge of negative effects

-alcohol

-benzos

-opiates

-crime

-addiction

-insanity

-you'll like it no matter what you expect, you will like it and repeat.