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Social Psychology (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134641287

Author:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers

Publisher:Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akert, Samuel R. Sommers

Chapter1: Introducing Social Psychology

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Topic: Alcohol and Other Drugs During most academic years, at least one fraternity pledge dies in the United States as a result of alcohol abuse. About 4,000 people in the United States die annually from alcohol poisoning, and many of them are college students. Why might fraternity pledges, and college students in general, be more prone than other people to consume large enough quantities of alcohol to literally poison themselves? What part does peer pressure play in alcohol and other kinds of substance abuse for college students and the rest of the population? Although heroin abuse typically has been associated with poor people residing in central cities, a report by the federal Community Epidemiology Work Group, a network of researchers, reported that there has been a surge in young heroin clients between the ages of twenty and thirty in suburbs and smaller communities. According to one journalist, drug traffickers see the suburbs as promising new markets for heroin because people are affluent and law enforcement is lax. How might public perceptions regarding heroin abuse change if this form of addiction comes to be seen as a pressing problem for affluent young people residing in suburban areas as opposed to traditional stereotypes of the average heroin user?

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