When neither the person taking the drug nor the person evaluating ...

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When neither the person taking the drug nor the person evaluating the effects of the drug knows which people are getting the experimental drug and which people are getting the placebo, this procedure is referred to as a(n)
 
  A. design flaw.
  B. effect size.
  C. preclinical study.
  D. double-blind procedure.

Question 2

Why was the 18th Amendment prohibiting alcohol such an important influence on the federal approach to regulating opioids and cocaine?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

The Narcotics Division in the Treasury department had been small and focused mainly on opium smuggling. Prohibition created a larger enforcement arm within Treasury, and Narcotics was placed under that. This agency now took a prohibition approach to narcotics, trying to prevent users from getting them. They closed down treatment clinics and arrested many physicians and pharmacists who supplied drugs to dependent users. Bonus: This was not due to a change in drug laws, but to a restructuring of the bureaucracy.