PSYC 3403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nucleus Accumbens, Sociological Perspectives, Reward System
29 Sep 2016
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You can"t see recovery in addiction like you can in other diseases more people therefore stigmatize addiction the more support the more likely to break the stigma. 4% predicted to be affected by addiction (way underreported) Many don"t come forward about their addictions feel stigmatized. Exam notes: no names, no dates, no direct stats (trends and patterns) Four dominant perspectives: moral model, biological model, sociological model, cognitive, social psychological model. Implies that drug users are bad/sinful people b/c they are breaking the law something is morally wrong with users overall, substance use is wrong. Former federal government really put it in peoples minds the problem with drugs and its legality: not a public health problem like it should be but a criminal justice problem (made it criminal) Treatment perspective: bad people who should be punished no focus on treating them or helping them but rather get them into the justice system to be punished for drug use: e. g.
