HREQ 1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mantra, Video Lottery Terminal, Harm Reduction

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1800
• Professor: Livy Visano

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Sanitation and access to water is crucial for personal hygiene and cleaning. The overall argument schissel makes is that as a country we are doing good, but when it comes to pockets in canada our rating goes down. First nations maybe told their health is not a big priority. How children and youth are labelled bad or mad is what we look at today. When looking at youth with mental problems we pathologize. When we see them as bad we criminalize them. Youth drugs and gambling are 2 examples we will look at. Gambling can be online or in a private setting with others mind you. From early period of time we often see children and youth as dependent. They need us for nurturing and life support and basic necessities of life. We create further dependencies on them, a large number of them.