PSYC*3150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Organized Crime, Genetic Predisposition, Etiology
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Intense attention opioids: 2k deaths, canada last year, endless debate, potential health impacts of legalizing marijuana. Romanticizing : willfully blind, 77, 00 hospitalization in canada, withdrawal and delirium, fasd, exacerbation of mental illness, violence, sexual assault, suicide and traumatic injuries. Alcohol: very small molecule; very complex, bi-product of sugar, organics, sugar, yeast, fermentation, cereal, starch, malt, sugar, evaporation and condensation of alcohol vapors, distillation. Indian subcontinent, distillation, production of medicines: sumerian, 3200 bc, beer; 3000 bc, wine, written history (tablet), agriculture, avicenna, antiseptic, europe, 10th century, u. s. , 18th century. Temperance movement: benjamin rush (1745-1813, heavy drinking= health problems, morality, alcohol addiction= disease, demonized, temperance societies. Initially promoted abstinence from distilled spirits and moderate consumption of beer and wine: later promoted total abstinence. Prohibition- u. s: prohibition laws in 1851, 1917, dry territory, private clubs; patent medicines, organized crime became more organized and profitable. Prohibition repealed: concerns that widespread disrespect for prohibition laws, taxation.
