SOCI 3055 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fear Mongering, Addiction, Substance Abuse
17 Oct 2017
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Obsessions and compulsions are not always negatively valued in society. The lay view: drug users are morally corrupt hedonists who value immediate pleasure above all else and who rely on others to handle their health and survival problems. Egg video: drugs are frying your brain, disease view, physiological change. Crack video: fear mongering, attempts to gain a legitimacy by saying that the drug is super dangerous but presents no actual arguments for why it is so. Different ways of presenting a position but most of them are totally wrong. Biomedicine never uses the word addiction to describe the condition: substance abuse and substance dependency (criteria for 2 conditions) Diagnostic criteria for substance abuse: a. A maladaptive pattern of substance use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress as manifested by one of the following occurring within a. Before the end of the 18th century and beginning of 19th (cid:272)e(cid:374)tur(cid:455) (cid:449)e did(cid:374)"t see addi(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (alcoholism) as a disease.
