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14 Cards in this Set
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What are most theories of drug use really about?
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Theories of addictions.
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What is addiction?
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In language we take addiction to mean loss of control, to be a slave to something, against one’s will, without choices.
Hence, addiction is sometimes called a ‘disease of the will’. |
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Examples of celebrities going through addiction show what?
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It isn't just social etc. it is scientific, moral, cultural, social, political term
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Social theories of addiction seek to what?
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Seeks to understand how behaviours (habits) are acquired and maintained on the basis of social & environmental cues, rewards
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What is the Kinberg model?
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Norman Zinberg provided one of the first dedicated models
of social contexts to explain variations in drug use, addiction. |
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He observed that social contexts play a key role in mediating what?
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discrete patterns of drug use – context makes a big difference
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Zinberg famously followed US soldiers returning from Vietnam what did he find?
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The heavy opiate use ‘at war’, 88% abstain back home.
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What are the 3 components of the zinberg model?
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Drug, Set (the person using the drug) & setting (physical and social setting).
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What is social sanctions?
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values and rules of conduct.
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What is social rituals?
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Patterns of behaviour
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What is social environment?
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Poverty, class, power and advantage.
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Another important contemporary social theory of drugs has emerged from who?
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Howard Parker’s work on ‘normalization’.
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What does Parkers work show?
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From a context where youth drug use was regarded as ‘deviant’ to one where this behaviour has been normalized. He argues that the social contexts of drug use have 'irrevocably' shifted.
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Parker outlines 6 dimensions of normalisation what do they describe?
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The 6 markers describe process of normatlisation a shift from the margins to the centre of youth cultures.
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