Topic: Reasons for Drug Use
Prompt: Why do you think Americans use so many legal drugs (e.g., alcohol, tobacco, and OTC drugs)? Does society promote extensive drug use? In reviewing the 3 broad explanations of addictionbiological, psychological, and sociologicalwhich theory or theories do you think best explain drug use? If illicit drug use was decriminalized, what would be the impact on the drug-related social problems? Give 2 examples of the impact, good or bad, of drug-related social problems.