Sunday, November 29, 2015

Agenda for 11/29

1. Again...

2. Black Friday

3. Finish Oxycontin Express

4. Keynote - Drug Use in America - (slides 1-10) 

HW - Assignment #14

Answer the following questions in a paragraph each:

1. For you, what was the most surprising, shocking, saddening, or maddening (or all of the above) about what you saw on The Oxycontin Express? Are you surprised at the extent of prescription pain killer abuse in America?

2. What do you think some of the reasons for this prescription drug crisis are beyond the personal choice to take the drug? Do you think major drug companies and doctors share any of the blame?

3. Choose three graphs (from slides 1-16) about drug use in the United States from the Drugs in America - Keynote that you find the most interesting and do the following:


  • Explain why each of those graphs are interesting to you. 
  • Show the three graphs to a family member or friend not in sociology class. Describe their response to each.
  • Analyze why you think they responded the way they did.

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