HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Moral Panic, Spontaneous Remission, Disulfiram

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 2L03
• Professor: All

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Advantages of the disease model: well supported (med profession, treatment industry, producers, recover movement, destigmatizes addiction, the disease model rests upon a notion that people do not have the possession of their will. To address addiction requires both individual level interventions as well as broader social changes to address psychosocial dislocation. Alexander: rates of addiction are high in places of inequality, some people turn to drugs in order to help them feel more accepted in a society, but as a result, the gap between people further differs. Includes those not in a position of wealth: poor. Adaption: the crack example: adaptio(cid:374) (cid:272)halle(cid:374)ges (cid:862)i(cid:374)sta(cid:374)ta(cid:374)eous addi(cid:272)tio(cid:374)(cid:863) that (cid:272)hara(cid:272)terized (cid:1005)99(cid:1004)s (cid:373)oral pa(cid:374)i(cid:272) over crack, belief that using crack once would instantaneously enslave user, regardless of personal circumstance or class. I(cid:373)ages of (cid:862)(cid:272)ra(cid:272)k addi(cid:272)ted (cid:271)a(cid:271)ies(cid:863) rei(cid:374)for(cid:272)ed (cid:448)i(cid:272)e mentality of law makers, as well as the exposure theories of medical practitioners, making coercion entirely justifiable.