Drugs and Behavior · Psychology
I learned how the stigma surrounding drug use is what continues to wage the war on drugs, not the actual drug itself.
Aspects of Neuroscience / Neuroanatomy, names and classifications of drugs, drug effects, law about drugs
Drug policy is rarely shaped around the drug; instead laws regulating drugs are usually written based off of racism and monetary reasons.
I learned a great deal about the history of psychoactive substances (of many different classes) since antiquity, as well as how drug policy has been shaped over time, and how science and empirical data is conspicuously absent from so many policies.
I learned about drug pharmacology, effects, and more importantly drug policy.
This course uses research to overturn many media perspectives we hear about drugs in our society. It teaches you to question what you see and hear on the daily basis and re-evaluate your preconceived notions. A topic like drugs has generational attitudes attached to it and its important to disaggregate them from our own knowledge.
Completely shifted my perspective on drug use, effects, and policy. Made me realize that a lot of my ideas surrounding drugs were based on "facts" that were not scientific.
It’s so fun to learn about drugs. The professor is very knowledgeable. I loved knowing that the drugs are actually not as scary as what we were taught to believe, there are actually other factors to be taken into consideration.
How to think critically about the common narratives we hear about drugs
I learned how to critically think about different issues. I also learned a lot more about how drugs are villainized in America and what the implications of that are.