Agenda for 4/25

1. So what happens to Todd? 

2. Maine's Heroin Crisis

3. Keynote - Drug Use in America - view slides 12-16

4. Oxycontin: Purdue Pharma's Painful Medicine

5. Doctor convicted of Murder for overdose deaths

6. How many users/dealers are arrested?

7. Opiate Addiction Treatment Options

- Research the basic info about your groups assigned treatment option

- How does it work? 
- Does it work (how effective)?
- Reasons for controversy? Pros/Cons?
- How widely utilized in the United States (or Maine)?
- What is the cost?

- Create a shared Google Doc to record your group's research.
- Have research completed for next class.

Group A. Abstinence Programs and Support Groups (Narcotics Anonymous)
Group B. Methadone
Group C. Suboxone
Group D. Needle Exchanges
Group E. Vancouver's Supervised Injection Site and proposed for Ithaca, NY

Agenda for 4/13

1. Opiate Use in Maine and Overdose deaths increase over 30%

2. Oxycontin Express

3. Keynote - Drug Use in America - view slides 12-16 

Agenda for 4/11

1. Finish  Oxycontin Express

2. Keynote - Drug Use in America - view slides 12-16 

Agenda for 4/7

1. Celebration of Knowledge (Midterm)

Agenda for 4/6

1. Review for Sociology Mid-term on Friday 4/8 - click here for review outline/questions

2. Watch: Oxycontin Express

Agenda for 4/5

1. Review for Sociology Mid-term on Thursday 4/7 - click here for review outline/questions

2. Watch: Oxycontin Express

Agenda for 4/4

1. Drugs deaths by continent 

2. Monitoring the Future - teen drug survey

3. How do our opinions match up against the majority of Americans from this Pew poll on drug use in America.  

• What is the sample size for this survey?

4. Drug use in America...how it's different from other countries. 

• Read, and with your table, identify which point, statistic, idea is the most surprising, shocking, or interesting to your table.

5. Drug Use in America - Keynote

• Which drug do people overdose from the most?

6. Begin "Oxycontin Express"

HW - Study for Mid-term. Review questions (Assignment #9) due next class