HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dipsomania, Opiate, Alcoholism
16 Dec 2018
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It was thought that in this process you"d begin a journey of rebirth: demonstrate notion that society itself was somehow central to addiction -- need to separate individual from normal environment. Inebriate asylums and retreats: medical profession saw problem in less spiritual terms, but still felt that dipsomaniacs had to be separated. Yet, prisons and traditional asylums not ideal: urged two types of institutions, small, voluntary, private charity retreats. Legal recognition of addiction: habitual drunkards act, 1879 (britain) Reasons for narcotics concern: courtwright: changing image of the drug user, differentiation between innocent addicts and working classes, linked to morality, working class: purposeful, surrounded themselves around the wrong crowd, etc. Innocent addicts: coincidental, addiction followed after prescripted use: klein: post-enlightenment focus on humans as rational, autonomous individuals. Intoxication threatens this rationality and orderliness: period of time where science replaced religion. Invention of hypodermic needles, mechanized production of heroin (bayer"s cough med) and cocaine (isolated from coca plant by chemists)
