Drugs and Crime

Catalog description

This course is designated to introduce students to the world of illegal drugs and the criminal justice response to them. Throughout the course we will discuss the use of certain psychoactive drugs before they were banned, the process of making drugs illegal and the current laws we have in place for psychoactive drugs, how drugs work in the body to produce their effects, the drug/crime connection, and the specific psychoactive drug categories. The major goal of this course is to teach students how to think critically about drug use and drug related issues. TSI Restriction(s): Reading, Math, and Writing