SOCI 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Binge Drinking, Gateway Drug Theory
18 Apr 2015
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Bad ppl do bad things re ects on bad character, morals. Social stressors that make drug use more likely. Drug: any substance that causes a biochemical reaction in the body. De nitions of legal or illegal drugs usually depend less on its chemical properties and more on surrounding economic, social & political factors. We de ne drugs based on how serious its impact is. Rather than motivated by how serious, destructive these drugs are, a lot of criminalization due to discrimination - how particular drugs are related to particular groups. Govt tried to criminalize & control/repress normative behaviour in certain populations. Nicotine - we"re moving in that direction. Social factors shape alcohol use & abuse in at least 2 ways: We "learn" to use alcohol: by in uencing the odds that a person will learn to use alcohol to cope w/ stress, by in uencing the opportunities a person has to use alcohol for any reason.
