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Psyc 330 Lecture 2 notes
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- PSYC 330
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- State University Of New York - Binghamton
Lecture notes of 4 pages for the course PSYC 330 at State University Of New York - Binghamton (class notes)
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Lecture 2Key for notes -
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Pink = personal question
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Accuracy in surveys
Not intoxicated
Good questions
Memories
General poulation surveys
Are they accurate ?
Absolute vs relative perspective , useful for insight to legal tax educational and health policy
Surveys will tel us what is really happening, media is lying and will pull the extreme to distire
interpretation of the drug usage in the United state s
Three Major surveys
The national survey on drug use and health
The drug abuse warning network ( dawn)
Monitoring the future
THE NSDUH
Goal : establish overall prevalence of use in lifetime, past year and past month for a variety of
substances
Prevalence = percent of population sample effected by that event
This is separable that incidents, it looks at incidents but they are the cases that develop over
time
Prevalence vs incidents
Looks at about 70,000 people across the us in a given year, age 12 or older ,
The findings
Alcohol then followed by tobacco , then nicotine.
18-25 has the greatest use , is it due to the publication of drug use/ wide spread media
White males take the cake yet again with
Bring back the question of why is alcohol and tobacco considered " good " drugs when they are
uses so much more than any other drug.
Vaping vs cigarettes, cigarettes takes the cake , why? probably taxes
Legal drinking age, alters availability and just general drug use
Dare caused drug education- do more drugs now you know what drugs are , cross refence the
don’t drink and drive logo
How credible ?
Missing individuals , homeless , incarcerated and military
Likely under representative of true values
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