HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Prescription Drug, Methamphetamine, Caffeine
31 Jan 2020
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Fix vs destroy imagined group of people associated to those things. Linked to harm: when we use good drugs for bad we assume its different somehow than doing a bunch of meth. Socially constructed: no inherent logic consitent truth. If we took disease model it woulndt matter if theyre misusing or not. Some drugs clear cut, fight an infection, but most drugs people become addicted to are all used to reshape how we feel, attentiveness, anxiousness (xans, perks ) Script doc: willing to write a prescription for something because they get paid for the visit workers, family and friends, clubs, all places drugs get moved around: this problem isnt possible without many actors being involved. Opioid crisis: very harmful to society, deaths involved, all cocaine and heroin deaths don"t compare to people dying from opioids, oxycodone, codeine. Fentanol: oxycodone, released late 80s, absolute breakthroguh med.
