Political Science Question

Please read the book which is attached below: Chasing the scream, then write about one of the following:(Please overview attached document: Writing Issues, and follow the structure mentioned in this file)

1. What do you think is the significance of the title of the book? In what ways does the theme implied by the title recur throughout the book? What overall message do you think the author is trying to convey by giving the book this title? Use evidence from the book for support.
2. Describe Gabor Mate’s theory of addiction and the underlying reasoning and evidentiary support for it. Are there any major flaws in it that you can identify? Is it different from Bruce Alexander’s theory? If you accept Mate/Alexander’s view, is there any way that prohibition is still supportable as a policy alternative? What about decriminalization? What do you think would be the optimal drug policy if you fully accepted these views? (Try to consider changes in society and historical events that have occurred since the late 1800s / early 1900s).
3. In what ways is our understanding of addiction still incomplete despite the research done by Gabor Mate and Bruce Alexander? What are some of the key unanswered questions about addiction and how might the answers impact drug policy going forward? Do you think the fact that there are still unanswered questions is why their theories are not more widely discussed, especially by official outlets, or do you think other reasons are more important?
4. How is the new approach to dealing with addiction pioneered by Liz Evans related to critiques of our cultural narrative about how drug addiction works? How is it related to the key findings of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study and the results of the study published in American Psychologist? How is it related to Mate and Alexander’s theories?
5. What do you think Mexico can do try and curb the violence that has plagued it in the course of the war on drugs? Explain why you think it could work. How confident are you that it would work? Are there any potential downsides?
6. According to the book, what seems to happen over time if you give hard-core addicts the option of a legal prescription program in which they control their own doses? What experiences is this observation based on, and do they, in your view, provide sufficient support for the general conclusion? How well does this view line up with the theories of addiction developed by Mate and Alexander? Is it consistent with our predominant cultural narrative about addiction? If not, how has this narrative been able to persist?
7. Compare and contrast the views about drug use and addiction expressed in this book with those in the Drugs and Drug Policy book. How do the differences in these views translate into different opinions about what policy should look like? Are there any arguments made in either book that you think successfully undermine positions taken in the other? Is there a middle ground that would unite the views of the two books, and if so, what would it be?

Your paper should be structured as an essay, with an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. It will be graded on each of the following items (1-5 scale): clarity/organization; thesis statement; quality of evidence, argument, and thesis support; and writing mechanics. It should be 4-5 pages and double-spaced with 12-point standard font and at least 1-inch margins all around. If you use ideas or quotes from the book or other sources, please provide correct citations.