HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Betty Friedan, Diazepam, Benzodiazepine
2 Jan 2019
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Anxielitic drug moderate levels of anxiety. 1970s: most prescribed drug in us (10% of women) Panic soon ensures over the drug menace hidden in plain sight . Volume of panic greater/range of opinions high. Herzberg: differed from previous drug panics both in terms of dealers and addicts . Deals = came from physicians and pharmacists. People who are labelled addicts = not centre of attention because white, middle class, women (ex. like other drugs racialized individuals, hippies, etc. ) Rather than most conservative members of society, loudest concern from feminist movement. Emerging 2nd wave feminist movement patriarchal society. Betty freidan: valium addiction the result of women being convinced their problems are medical rather than political. So many women using in high amounts because women aren"t taught/ encouraged to see reality of lives as being social product, but as personal in nature.
