SOCB50H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Health Promotion, Reductionism, Microorganism
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Addiction as deviant behaviour normalizing the pleasure of intoxication. The social construction of drug use std and has served to stigmatize and criminalize many individuals often causing more harm than drug use itself. Yes the consumption of psychoactive mood modifying intoxicating substances have been part of human society for over 10,000 years. Acceptability of different forms of drug use behavior has varied widely across cultures substances and time this century in particular have seen some points of drug use transform from private indulgence to public evil. The creation of drug use of the deviant behavior has been a dynamic process involving three keys social movements each emphasizing a specific form of control over use moral, medicine and criminalization. The making of addiction creating deviance: culture is generally labeled particular lifestyles at deviant in order to define and dramatize standards of conduct that meeting the status quo.
