Drugs, Alcohol and Crime

Assignment Question

Consult the readings about theories of addiction and discuss your opinion as to which is most relevant. In other words, What do you think are the main causes of addiction? Is the main cause physical, psychological or social? Or are all three dimensions involved?







































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Introduction

For centuries, drugs and alcohol consumption have been a part of every day life. The Ancient Chinese would smoke opium in ‘Opium Houses’ to relax and contemplate, the Ancient Romans would congregate in large numbers and have parties with enormous consumption of wine and alcohol, and even as early as Queen Victorian times, Royalty and the upper class were a little partial to sniffing cocaine from their ‘snuff’ boxes. All of these types of behavioral patterns were seen not as illegal dealings but rather as a social way of life. It may not have been determined or documented if, those who indu...