Drugs & Violence (Part Two)
- Self Defense
- Mon 27th Jun 2022
Goldstein (1990), concluded that illicit drug use contributed to violence in three ways: psychopharmacologically, economically and systemically. From a psychopharmacological perspective there are certain drugs that cause mood swings, lower inhibitions, and increase aggression etc., which can/may result in violent offending e.g., a person who may not have otherwise engaged in an act of violence, but due to consumption of an illicit drug, reacts violently to a benign threat due to a state of heightened anxiety etc. Illicit drugs also contribute to violence economically; a user may engage in violent street robberies in order to finance their habit. Simply being...
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