HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Legal Drinking Age, Thirteenth Step, Price Controls
2 Jan 2019
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Those diagnosed as alcoholics typically belonged to groups believed to suffer from poor willpower in the rst place. Those labelled alcoholics were already thought to have problems controlling themselves (stereotypes around poor/working classes, women, immigrants, racial minorities etc. ) Although disease model emerged, moral aspect didn"t disappear; notion that character of drinker must change for treatment to succeed. Aa arrives to address both moral/disease aspects, but not without criticism: When you label someone as permanently diseased (a permanent alcoholic) creates powerlessness may suggest they can never learn to control themselves, something is beyond them. Tremendous social pressure to participate in certain actives and not others loss of liberty. Not classic treatment bigger transformation of peoples lives which includes social transformation (social engagements are so intense and feel such duty to participate may limit their freedom) Patriarchal: turning over to higher power" more problematic when socialized into obsequiousness; also, the thirteenth step .
