HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Prescription Drug, Methadone, Morphine
10 Mar 2020
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Dichotomy between narratives of pharmaceuticals and narcotics: one fixes, one destroys. By school age, children recognize some drugs as good (used by good people) and others. When using good drugs in a bad way, users may justify it on the basis that "it"s a medicine it cant be that bad" People use drugs in different ways (midisenol, inappropriate circumstances) Most psychopharmaceutic also have black market for people who want to use recreationally. National government has list of where drugs should fall. Medical drug makes you feel better and more able to preform. Stocks - wall street in 1980"s - place where people used illegal narcotics to get work done and misusing prescription drugs. Consequence of drug scheduling but also fuels way we think of substances. People who are buying drugs from street - clearly not medical drug. May not be substance but method or dosage. These questions draw attention to socially constructed nature of drug division oys ork.
