SOC102H1 Chapter Notes -Health Care Reform, Body Fluid, Abscissa And Ordinate
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Addiction socially disapproved behaviour that is uncontrollable repetitious and harmful. Social effects of addiction arte huge in broken fams, no job, Whereas the medical approach focuses attn on the addicted individual, sociological approach focuses on the social focuses that increase the risks that certain ppl or groups will develop addictions. Gambling is a behaviour on a continuum. Canadian problems gambling index reported a pre valence of 3. 1% of the pop for moderate nd 0. 7% for severe gambling problems. In a pop of 32 mill cnda there r roughly 480,000 cndians with a gambling problem. The cpgi is a scale developed to measure problem or addictive gambling. Gambling has bcome a public health issue. Its a behaviour learned socially in the usual ways. Often ppl learn to gamble early in their childhood cuz of their fams. Ppl advertise gambling with music, rewards, flashing lights, by having buses go to casinos, having casinos open.
