SOCB50H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Drug User, Harm Reduction, Pharmacology
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Addictions as deviant behavior: normalizing the pleasures of intoxication. Social construction of drug use as deviance: stigmatize and criminalize individuals, often causing more harm than drug use itself. Consumption of psychoactive, mood modifying, intoxicating substances: part of human society over 10,000 years. Acceptability of different forms of drug-use behavior: varied across culture, substance and time movements. This century - forms of drug use: originating from different concepts of addition, transformed from private indulgence to public evil. Cultures label particular lifestyles as (cid:494)deviant(cid:495) in order to define and dramatize standards of conduct that maintain status quo. Social construction of drugs as deviant created marginalized lifestyles: contributing to expectations of how people should /not live their lives. Substances that society now perceives to be threatening, at various time all: freely available, medically prescribed, aggressively marketed, severely restricted and candidates for prohibition and legalization substances. How and why we attribute a deviant status to the users of different.
