HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hypodermic Needle, Medicalization
31 Jan 2018
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Concern about narcotics didn"t arrive until 20th century. Habitual opium usage was viewed as "romantic", non diseases. Before this, the only drugs being controlled were poison (free for all for all other dr. Addiction is about the individual person (susceptibility theory) Originally opiates were used by upper-middle class white women (innocent or accidental. As this changes, notion of addiction became more threatening. Social status of the user shapes how people view the substance. Ex. a person with prescribed medication becoming addicted vs non prescribed. Racial, poor, etc seen as social threat, add narcotics/drugs then they become more. The enlightenment -moment in history that is really important. In what it means to be human/what we perceive as being human. Movement away from religious authority to scientific, philosophy, This was seen as an explosion of knowledge. Somewhere along the line, the "ideal human" changes r drugs) ntal addicts) ribed ore of a threat. Somewhere along the line, the "ideal human" changes.
