Question 1

De Marneffe claims that drug prohibition can be justified as reducing drug abuse even if it does not _________ it.

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Question 2

According to de Marneffe, the _________ principle says that the government may not limit a person's liberty in ways that impose a burden on him or her that is substantially worse than the worst burden anyone would bear in the absence of this policy.

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Question 3

De Marneffe defines drug _________ as drug use that either harms the user or creates a significant risk of harm for the user.

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Question 4

De Marneffe bases his case for the decriminalization of drugs largely on an appeal to respect for the _________ of individuals (i.e., their freedom to make their own decisions).

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Question 5

De Marneffe states, "Taking rights seriously also involves commitment to _________, according to which we may not evaluate government policies solely by subtracting aggregated costs from aggregated benefits, but must also make one-to-one comparisons of the burdens that individuals bear under these policies."

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Question 6

According to what Shapiro calls the "standard view" of addiction, certain drugs are highly addictive largely because of their _________-that is, their chemical composition and their effects on the brain.

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Question 7

The disagreeable effects that a drug user may experience upon trying to stop using the drug are known as _________ symptoms.

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Question 8

Shapiro claims that understanding addiction to smoking requires introducing the _________ of set and setting with pharmacology.

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Question 9

"Expectations," says Shapiro, "explain the well-known _________ effect: if people consume something they mistakenly believe will stop or alleviate their pain, it often does."

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Question 10

In response to the objection that legalizing hard drugs would make addiction to these drugs as prevalent as cigarette addiction, Shapiro states that, at worst, legalizing hard drugs would create a new _________ problem, rather than a large increase in the number of people ruining their lives.

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Quiz 5: Drugs and Addiction