HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Opium Den, Morphine, Racialization
31 Jan 2020
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Intro: assume addictiveness of a drug innately tied to chemical properties. Social conditions play central role determining which substances are harmful or addiction or beneficial. Interplay between how we understand substances, who uses them, and who we think/say uses them: our perception of any substance is linked in part to the stories of who uses those drugs. Opium and emergence of heroin: meaning changed in all of these drugs, not everyone wanted chinese people coming to canada, intensified link (even though before china. In north america there was large group of chinese migrants. Sister drug morphine still permitted, even when opium banned about how chinese are coming and bringing opium to canada and destroying population with it. Links between race and imagined use of drugs very common blamed for it, but not a concrete reality, everyone doing it. In narcotics farms lots of research conduced on inmates happen if they were given that drug again, deeply flawed.
