ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Insight, Health Canada, Supervised Injection Site
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Scientific narratives: the sociocultural construction of drugs s scientific and. Big part of using drugs is avoiding police. Sing drgs also has a lot to do with geography. Lots of single room occupancy hotels and allies and hotels to hide behind and use. The response to this increase in disease was more enforcement. Criminalizing drug users creates stigma around the whole thing. Addiction: is a primary, chronic disease characterized by inability to abstain (look up and finish the definition) Structural: policies and laws, criminalization, availability of sterile syringes. Correlation between daily use of safe injection sites and siting of public injection as well as needles/syringes found on the streets went down and number of police on the streets went down. Od deaths declined by 35% in the area around insite. 83. 5 preventable infections annually - . 3 million dollars of federal tax.
