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sociology.morrisville.edu Drugs, Society and Behavior SOCI 270 - SUNY Morrisville College Professor Kurt Reymers Optional Assignment Online Activity B1: Optional assignment -- NOT REQUIRED Anthropological Pharmacology (the 11-syllable) assignment: Read the following excerpt from Food of the Gods by Terrance McKenna for extra credit. 1. What is the general structure of the role of 'shaman' in many cultures? 2. What is the relevance of language to the shaman? 3. Briefly describe in your own words Mckenna's ethnographic experience with shamanism in South America. 4. What do you think McKenna means when he says "the world of shamanism, of allies, shape shifting, and magical attack are far more real than the constructs of science can ever be, because these spirit ancestors and their other world can be seen and felt, they can be known, in the nonordinary reality"? E-mail your completed assignment to: reymers@morrisville.edu, with the SUBJECT line to read: DRUGSB1 Due on or before 5pm on Friday, May 7 Online Activity 10: Video comprehension assignment Watch the video linked below and answer the following questions. PBS Frontline's "Chasing Heroin" 1) How much was the heroin worth ($) that was running through the young woman's veins during the interview in the introduction of the video? 2) What medical intervention program created the introduction of opioids, particularly oxycontin, into the drug regimen of the medical community? 3) What were the charges and what was the result of the lawsuit against Purdue Pharma? 4) Near the end of Mara's story, the narrator reveals the rate of relapse within the first year of heroin sobriety. What is it? 5) How many people have died in Kitsap County since the city council of Bremerton, Washington? 6) What are the life goals of 20-year-old Kristina Block's experience with heroin treatment? 1:13 - Wants to go to the LEAD program to clean up and be a cosmetician 7) How did the work between county prosecuter Lisa Daugaard and the Seattle Police department change drug law enforcement? 8) What happened when, after waiting 11 days, Johnny took the bus four hours to a rehab facility where they had a bed for him? 9) What is the drug that Johnny eventually used to help him block the neurotransmission reception of heroin? (Note - look it up online, or try your best at the spelling) 10) What happened to Kristina Block? Please do NOT send as an attachment. E-mail your completed assignment to: reymers@morrisville.edu, SUBJECT line: DRUGS10 Due by Friday 4/30 5pm Online Activity 9: 10:12 7 LTE ?? < Inbox Found in Exchange Inbox Donielle Balstra - balstrdh... Wednesday DB 2021 Spring: CJUS-499-LN1 (17204): UPDATE EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY WED 5/5 @ NOON To earn the extra credit points for this event, you need to be there for the whole thing and be attentive and respectful listeners. Teams will let me know exactly when you sign in and out. I will ask you to answer a few questions here on Blackboard sometime after the speaker's presentation. Thomas Hyland 12:00 pm WEDNESDAY MAY 5th +20 points Currently: Adjunct professor in The Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Past career: Mr. Hyland has extensive knowledge & experience, having served 27 years in the NYPD, mostly as a homicide detective. His most well-known assignment was being a member of the Son of Sam task force. (David Berkowitz, aka the "Son of Sam," is an American serial killer who pleaded guilty to eight separate shooting attacks that began in New York City during the summer of 1976.) Some examples of the many extraordinary cases Mr. Hyland worked on and solved: • The killing of Carolyn Eisenberg, an actress and Harvard 10:127 LTE ?? < Inbox Found in Exchange Inbox Donielle Balstra - balstrdh... Wednesday DB 2021 Spring: CJUS-235-LN1 (15695): UPDATE EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY WED 5/5 @ NOON To earn the extra credit points for this event, you need to be there for the whole thing and be attentive and respectful listeners. Teams will let me know exactly when you sign in and out. I will ask you to answer a simple question here on Blackboard sometime after the speaker's presentation. +15 points Currently: Adjunct professor in The Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Past career: Mr. Hyland has extensive knowledge & experience, having served 27 years in the NYPD, mostly as a homicide detective. His most well-known assignment was being a member of the Son of Sam task force. (David Berkowitz, aka the "Son of Sam," is an American serial killer who pleaded guilty to eight separate shooting attacks that began in New York City during the summer of 1976.) Some examples of the many extraordinary cases Mr. Hyland worked on and solved: The killing of Carolyn Eisenberg, an actress and Harvard College graduate whose 1984 murder on a Manhattan rooftop gathered wide national media coverage in the US. The "What I Did for Love" murder of Gwyda DonHowe Kean, the wife of a famous Producer.