SOC203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Harm Reduction, Anomie, Social Forces
5 Mar 2017
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When socially accepted standards of use are violated. Users are unable to stop- withdrawal effects (physical or psychological dependency) Social strain between culturally-defined goals and socially approved means for attaining. Sociologically, examine the social forces that increase risk of addiction. Drug use due to anomie (normlessness) them (merton) Addiction as dysfunction (medical condition sick role) Sanitary conditions for addicts while they inject drugs. Next door but invisible: the world of homelessness and drug addiction (video) Labels deflect attention away from the social circumstances of their lives. Illustrates the structural forces that shape the lives of the destitute in a wealthy nation. Pleasurable , exciting experience, more likely to be repeated may get worse. Users can get labeled drug addict , alcoholic , identification with the label. Once you consider affluent subject, then relationship is weak. But crime and drug use is associated with low ses. Still, a major issue: drugs organized crime violence.
