1. What is Narcan? 2. The debate over Narcan
6. So what are our options for dealing with the heroin crisis beyond arrests and jail time? Below are five ways that communities are dealing with heroin addiction. Some are attempts to end the addiction, while others try to reduce the harm of heroin addiction. You will be working with the students at your table to create presentation that teaches the class about one of these approaches. Heroin Treatment and Harm Reduction Options Table 1. Abstinence Programs (Narcotics Anonymous) Table 2. Methadone Table 3. Suboxone Table 4. Needle Exchanges Table 5. Vancouver's Supervised Injection Site and proposed for Ithaca, NY A. Your group must present to the class about your assigned topic. For your presentation, you may use one of the following methods:
B. Your presentation must answer the following questions about your topic: - 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? HW - Assignment #12 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. How could state law makers (politicians) in Florida, make changes to Florida's laws to reduce the prescription drug crisis? What could doctors do differently? What could drug companies do differently? 3. Discuss the responsibility of drug companies, state law makers (politicians), and doctors share in this crisis? How much of the blame do you think they share with the user who decides the take the drug? 4. Why do you think that the user is the only one who feels legal consequences (arrest and imprisonment) for the problem? Why not doctors or drug companies? Don't they produce, sell and profit from the drug much more than a street level dealer? 5. What are your opinions on the various approaches heroin treatment and harm reduction? Which do agree with, why? Are there any you disagree with, why? 6. Do you see the heroin epidemic primarily as a health problem or criminal problem. In trying the solve the problem, should addicts be treated as people suffering from a disease or as criminals? Explain your perspective in detail.
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1. Finish "Oxycontin Express"
2. So what happens to Todd? 3. Watch: Maine's Heroin Crisis 4. Father Details Daughter's Heroin Addiction In Obituary 5. Oxycontin: Purdue Pharma's Painful Medicine 6. So what are our options for dealing with the heroin crisis beyond arrests and jail time? Below are five ways that communities are dealing with heroin addiction. Some are attempts to end the addiction, while others try to reduce the harm of heroin addiction. You will be working with the students at your table to create presentation that teaches the class about one of these approaches. Heroin Treatment and Harm Reduction Options Table 1. Abstinence Programs (Narcotics Anonymous) Table 2. Methadone Table 3. Suboxone Table 4. Needle Exchanges Table 5. Vancouver's Supervised Injection Site and proposed for Ithaca, NY A. Your group must present to the class about your assigned topic. For your presentation, you may use one of the following methods:
B. Your presentation must answer the following questions about your topic: - 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? HW - Assignment #12 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. How could state law makers (politicians) in Florida, make changes to Florida's laws to reduce the prescription drug crisis? What could doctors do differently? What could drug companies do differently? 3. Discuss the responsibility of drug companies, state law makers (politicians), and doctors share in this crisis? How much of the blame do you think they share with the user who decides the take the drug? 4. Why do you think that the user is the only one who feels legal consequences (arrest and imprisonment) for the problem? Why not doctors or drug companies? Don't they produce, sell and profit from the drug much more than a street level dealer? 5. What are your opinions on the various approaches heroin treatment and harm reduction? Which do agree with, why? Are there any you disagree with, why? 1. Drug Use and Addiction in the US v. the world
2. Drug Use in America - Keynote 3. "Oxycontin Express" Keynote - Drug Use in America - view slides 12-16 HW - Assignment #12 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? 3. How could state law makers (politicians) in Florida, make changes to Florida's laws to reduce the prescription drug crisis? What could doctors do differently? What could drug companies do differently? 3. Discuss the responsibility of drug companies, state law makers (politicians), and doctors share in this crisis? How much of the blame do you think they share with the user who decides the take the drug? 4. Why do you think that the user is the only one who feels legal consequences (arrest and imprisonment) for the problem? Why not doctors or drug companies? Don't they produce, sell and profit from the drug much more than a street level dealer? 5. 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:
1. Continue overview of Functionalism (see agenda for 11/15)
2. "Drug overdose deaths in Maine now averaging 1 a day"
3. Drugs deaths by continent 4. Pew Research - Drug Opinion Survey 5. Drug Use and Addiction in the US v. the world 1. Legalized pot: Questions and answers
2. Presenting Children's Books 3. Classic Sociological Theory #2 - Functionalism The Functionalist View the Family (and socialization) A. Functionalist Perspective
B. George Peter Murdock – The four essential functions of the nuclear family In functionalist thought, the family is a particularly important institution as this it the ‘basic building block’ of society which performs the crucial functions of socializing the young and meeting the emotional needs of its members. Stable families underpin social order and economic stability. Murdoch looked at 200 different societies and argued that family was universal (in all of them). He suggested there were ‘four essential functions’ of the family: 1. Stable satisfaction of the sex drive – within monogomous relationships 2. The biological reproduction of the next generation – without which society cannot continue. 3. Socialization of the young – teaching basic norms and values 4. Meeting its members economic needs – producing food and shelter for example. C. The functionalist perspective emphasizes the interconnectedness of society by focusing on how each part influences and is influenced by other parts.
D. Functionalists use the terms functional and dysfunctional to describe the effects of social elements on society.
E. Sociologists have identified two types of functions: manifest and latent (Merton 1968).
4. Collins Type 1 - what could be one manifest and one latent function of the "War on Drugs" (the government's efforts to eliminate illegal drugs from society and punish users) 1. Classic Sociological Theory #2 - Functionalism
The Functionalist View of Society the Family Functionalists regard society as a system made up of different parts which depend on each other. Different institutions each perform specific functions within a society to keep that society going, in the same way as the different organs of a human body perform different functions in order to maintain the whole. In functionalist thought, the family is a particularly important institution as this it the ‘basic building block’ of society which performs the crucial functions of socializing the young and meeting the emotional needs of its members. Stable families underpin social order and economic stability. George Peter Murdock – The four essential functions of the nuclear family Looked at 200 different societies and argued that family was universal (in all of them). Suggested there were ‘four essential functions’ of the family: 1. Stable satisfaction of the sex drive – within monogomous relationships 2. The biological reproduction of the next generation – without which society cannot continue. 3. Socialization of the young – teaching basic norms and values 4. Meeting its members economic needs – producing food and shelter for example. Functionalist Perspective
Sociologists have identified two types of functions: manifest and latent (Merton 1968). Manifest functions are consequences that are intended and commonly recognized. Latent functions are consequences that are unintended and often hidden. For example, the manifest function of education is to transmit knowledge and skills to society’s youth. But public elementary schools also serve as babysitters for employed parents, and colleges offer a place for young adults to meet potential mates. The baby-sitting and mate-selection functions are not the intended or commonly recognized functions of education; hence they are latent functions. HW - finish Children's Books, due next class. 1. Final Election Update
2. The Giving Tree
6. Children's Book Project: Writing a Children's Book 1. After being assigned your topic, complete the children's book brainstorming handout - Writing a Children's Book - Topic Handout 2. Write a brief outline for your children's book. The outline should spell out the beginning, middle and end of your book and the overall story that you want to tell. Be sure to include when you will hit the "major points" about your topic in the story. 3. Use Adobe Spark Video to create your children's book (choose the "Tell What Happened" template). 4. Your book must be at least 11 pages (slides), including a cover page. 5. Each page must have text and images. No more than two sentences per page, and vocabulary must be age appropriate. At least one image per slide. Images must be age appropriate and relate to the text. Due: 11/10 Grading Rubric - 50 total points
*2016 Mock Election Results - 841 student votes.
President/ Vice-President
Representative to Congress- District 1
Question 1- Citizen Initiative Do you want to allow the possession and use of marijuana under state law by persons who are at least 21 years of age, and allow the cultivation, manufacture, distribution, testing, and sale of marijuana and marijuana products subject to state regulation, taxation and local ordinance?
Question 2- Citizen Initiative Do you want to add a 3% tax on individual Maine taxable income above $200,000 to create a state fund that would provide direct support for student learning in kindergarten through 12th grade public education?
Question 3- Citizen Initiative Do you want to require background checks prior to the sale or transfer of firearms between individuals not licensed as firearms dealers, with failure to do so punishable by law, and with some exceptions for family members, hunting, self-defense, lawful competitions, and shooting range activity?
Question 4- Citizen Initiative Do you want to raise the minimum hourly wage of $7.50 to $9 in 2017, with annual $1 increases up to $12 in 2020, and annual cost-of-living increases thereafter; and do you want to raise the direct wage for service workers who receive tips from half the minimum wage to $5 in 2017, with annual $1 increases until it reaches the adjusted minimum wage?
Question 5- Citizen Initiative Do you want to allow voters to rank their choices of candidates in elections for U.S. Senate, Congress, Governor, State Senate, and State Representative, and to have ballots counted at the state level in multiple rounds in which last-place candidates are eliminated until a candidate wins by majority?
Question 6- Citizen Initiative Do you favor a $100,000,000 bond issue for construction, reconstruction and rehabilitation of highways and bridges and for facilities, equipment and property acquisition related to ports, harbors, marine transportation, freight and passenger railroads, aviation, transit and bicycle and pedestrian trails, to be used to match an estimated $137,000,000 in federal and other funds?
2. Electoral Prediction - Click here to complete your electoral map
3. The Feral Child (Danielle) and the Oprah update 4. Everybody Poops
5. The Giving Tree
6. Children's Book Project: Writing a Children's Book 1. After being assigned your topic, complete the children's book brainstorming handout - Writing a Children's Book - Topic Handout 2. Write a brief outline for your children's book. The outline should spell out the beginning, middle and end of your book and the overall story that you want to tell. Be sure to include when you will hit the "major points" about your topic in the story. 3. Use Adobe Spark Video to create your children's book (choose the "Tell What Happened" template). 4. Your book must be at least 11 pages (slides), including a cover page. 5. Each page must have text and images. No more than two sentences per page, and vocabulary must be age appropriate. At least one image per slide. Images must be age appropriate and relate to the text. Due: 11/10 Grading Rubric - 50 total points
1. Maine Ballot Questions
Q1 - Recreational marijuana legalization Q2 - 3% tax on household income over $200,000 to fund public education Q3 - expanded background checks for gun purchases Q4 - Increase minimum wage to $12/hour by 2020 Q5 - Rank choice voting for Maine elections. Another explanation. Q6 - $100 million bond (State of Maine borrows money) for transportation projects (highways, bridges, ports, etc.). Would qualify state for $137 million in Federal funds. Total cost to pay off, $133 million. *Click here to vote in TA Mock Election 2. The Feral Child and the Oprah update |
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