HREQ 3890 Chapter Notes -Binge Drinking, Addiction, Symbolic Interactionism
6 May 2015
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Mooney, holmes, knox & schacht, chapters 3 & 14. A drug is any substance other than food that alters the structure or function of a living organisms when it enters. Netherlands treats drugs as a health problem instead of a crime issue. Correlation of poverty, geography, location, education and drug use. Culture of drug use in white and upper class groups. In canada, alcohol is used more than drugs. Psychoactive drugs alter functioning of brain, affecting mood, emotions and perceptions. Drug abuse occurs when acceptable social standards of drug use are violated, resulting in adverse. Ex. // drugs lead to abuse, arrest, divorce, hospitalization. Drug addiction refers to a condition in which drug use is compulsive users are unable to stop because of their. Structural functionalist drug abuse because of weakening norms in society. Drug use responsive to absence of bond between person & society. 73% of youth with substance dependencies in us reporting drug use to cope with dysfucntonal abusive.
