Drugs and Society.

Catalog description

This course will help students become more informed about the factors that may underlie drug use and introduce them to historical and contemporary controversies surrounding drugs and society. There are many issues related to the use of drugs: Why people use them? How they affect people? How society responds to drug use? What can be done to prevent or terminate use? This course will address these topics by considering mind/psychology, body/pharmacology, and environment/sociology.