SOCI 3055 Lecture 5: SOCI3055 Week 5 Lecture Notes
7 Feb 2019
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Addiction iii the dislocation theory: a social-scientific theory of addiction. Opposition of premise #1: claims you can only get addicted to drugs or alcohol, demonstrates the problem with conceptualizing addiction as only being related to drugs or alcohol. In brazil, cocaine use was heavy among street children in sao paulo. In cairo, use was confined mainly to affluent adults. In mexico city, it was concentrated in 21-24 yo males. In korea, cocaine traced to korean nationals who traveled to the us: can be found in every segment of human society, differences in use. In mexico city, injections among young adult males restricted primarily to the homeless. In bolivia, & peru, traditional coca chewing found to be quite common. In nigeria, cocaine was smoked in the form of crack cocaine & its use restricted to wealthy nigerians: columbian prostitutes smoked coca-paste.
