Drugs and Addiction

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. According to Michael Huemer, the harm of drug use to individual drug users

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. On Huemer's view, it is wrong to think that

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. Huemer argues that there is no reason to think that the harms of drug use are in an important sense

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. According to de Marneffe, which of the following is a reason we might call someone a drug addict?

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. Which of the following is evidence that de Marneffe cites in support of the claim that increased availability of a drug leads to increased use of that drug?

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. According to de Marneffe, what is the central difference between drug legalization and mere decriminalization?

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. Shapiro claims that surveys have been confirmed by longitudinal studies that indicate that

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. Shapiro cites a study of Vietnam veterans, which showed a significant decrease in heroin use after the veterans returned home. Which factor does Shapiro cite as explaining this decrease?

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. Which of the following is a central claim in Shapiro's argument?

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. Shapiro discusses Mediterranean cultures' use of alcohol to show that

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. Huemer suggests that drug prohibition is not unjust, even if it is not the best policy.

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. According to Huemer, people have an unrestricted right to their own bodies.

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. De Marneffe argues that it should be illegal to use drugs but legal to make and sell them.

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. De Marneffe admits that the costs of prohibition might outweigh its benefits, and he leaves it an open question whether drug prohibition would lead to increased crime and corruption.

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. De Marneffe argues that if drug legalization will lead to an increase in drug abuse, then drug decriminalization will do the same.

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. Shapiro argues that cravings, increased drug tolerance, and withdrawal symptoms can explain drug addiction.

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. Shapiro argues that being addicted to smoking, an activity, cannot be reduced to being addicted to cigarettes, a drug.

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. Shapiro claims that drug addicts, before they start using drugs, were generally just as psychologically healthy as nonaddicts.

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. Huemer argues that people have a natural _________ to use their own bodies as they wish, within certain limits.

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. Huemer argues that if drug users do not use drugs _________, then there is great injustice in punishing them.

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

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

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. 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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