CRIM 3450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pharmaceutical Industry, Substance Dependence, Sociological Perspectives
14 Sep 2018
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Why understanding drug use is so important. ,120 spent per second in the cost of drug use to the us society in lost productivity, health care costs, cjs operations: more widespread. Changes in availability and dissemination: more potent substances. Popular and enticing --> big pharma getting more involved and advertising (people becoming their own doctors normalizing drug use) Combines the previous categories of substance abuse and substance dependence. Separated by the specific drug that is being used ex. The properties of drugs dictate drug-related behavior: weed use automatically lead to use and abuse of harder drugs. Pharm effects --> social effects: mind altering properties set off a chain of events that lead to interest of society. Societal conditions help define drugs, drug use, drug abuse, and the social ramifications. The objective (pharm) effects the subjective (social construction of reality: models, moral model of addiction: people use and abuse drugs because they choose to.
