SOCI 255 - Drugs & Society (3)

This course facilitates understanding of the multidimensional factors involved in drug use, dependence, misuse, and treatment, in the context of social structural factors. Drug use as a social issue is examined through the lens of social vacancy, social controls, social institutions, anomie, and inequality. The process of medicalization of commonly co-occuring conditions with substance abuse disorder, ethics involved in disclosures, and criminalization and decriminalization processes are also covered.