HLTHAGE 2L03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Eucharist, Spontaneous Remission, Hypodermic Needle

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 2L03
• Professor: mat savelli

Document Summary

Medieval europe - alcohol understood as food because it was safer than water and milk. Drug taking was common but addiction was never talked about. Discussion with no concern about the increase in drug taking (opioids) Britain talks about opioids being helpful in peoples lives. Alcohol was a habit and central to everyone"s lives. Even though consequences happened, people were still not addicts, their sin was loving drinking, not finding it irresistible. Addiction new to english meant having a tendency or inclination toward something, not a compulsion. New word meant something that someone was drawn too. Trotter - 1804 - drunkenness is a disease of the mind (disease was controlling them) the mind (disease was controlling them) Rush - 1811- challenges idea that habitual drunkenness is not harmful or offensive. Habitual drinking was a problem because it led to other disease. Developed idea that drinking was sinful, inherently evil, drinkers = morally weak and criminals prone to insanity.