HLTHAGE 2L03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Addiction, Evangelicalism, Prescription Drug
31 Jan 2020
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Historical roots of addiction concept: alcohol used to be used daily, safer than water, for thousands of years we didn"t see addiction even though there is a long history of drug and alcohol use. Expansion of state, transformation of economy into urbanization, professionalization of medicine/birth of psychiatry. Addressing addictions: prevention, harm reduction, treatment, enforcement, prevention: universal, selective, indicated, agent, host, environment, cbt, prescription drug treatment to stop other addiction (drug substitution), antabuse, coercion, paternalism, retribution, no universal model of addiction. Alcohol: mass production and social regulation: special status, rite of passage, drinking is performative, symbolic, beginning of pubs and bars, engel: restore worker, make day tolerable. Ideas about addicts socially constructed replicating the same strategies. Campbell: medicalization and addiction: drug addiction as a hybrid social, medical, and biomedical condition, social construction of addiction. May: pathology, identity and the social construction of alcohol dependence: critique medicalization, only partially successful, medical knowledge and large focus on susceptibility, addiction subjective symptom.
