SOWK 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Blood Alcohol Content, Infographic, Caffeine
21 Jan 2019
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When i was thinking about how to approach this topic of alcohol, it occurred to me to call it "the invisible drug . It might seem like the ultimate misnomer - alcohol isn"t invisible. In fact, in our society, it is everywhere. Yet i would suggest that if you were to ask people to give you a list of drugs, alcohol is not likely to be mentioned initially. When we stereotypically think of drugs, we tend to think of drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, heroin, even prescription drugs. That then is the paradox about alcohol: it is a substance that in western industrialized societies is a part of many aspects of social life, yet it is seen more as a beverage than a drug. This is ironic in light of the fact that at the addiction research foundation and, now since 1998, at the.
