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A limited section ruspasienter the great gabsty makes no summer. Filed under: alcohol abuse, work policy, housing, exclusion, ethics, financial crisis, chronic addicts, drug treatment Wed, June 30, 2011 at 1:06 pm
In a large landscaped reportage Trønder-Avisa June 17 discussed the opening of a new daily section for addicts at Levanger Hospital. There is good news, not least because limited section aims to explore the possibility of getting people with drug problems into work or education. As I see it, it is the only effective the great gabsty medicine against destructive consumption behaviors. The less pleasing is that the journalist goes astray in the causality qua addiction consists the great gabsty in. She writes: "(...) Many patients struggle with mental health problems, the great gabsty partly as a background for and partly as a consequence of drug use (...)" This is a far too narrow, and partly misleading presentation the great gabsty of the complex relationship that anrører substance.
When the journalist writes that mental problem is a consequence of drug use, she reflects neither how complex cultural and social factors involved in devastating substance abuse, nor the victim blaming she carries out with its normative and imprecise language. It is not, as I see it, drug use that is causing the mental problem. Comprehensive and harmful drug use, however, the rule action by social and cultural marginalization.
Therefore, I prefer the term drug abuse rather than substance, and understood as episodic or persistent substance that violate social and cultural norms, and that leads to exclusion from work and other social life, and that in consequence accentuates the norm-breaking and hazardous drug use with permanent or intermittent mental illness as a consequence. This understanding breaks partially with the endogenous orientation including the diagnostic criteria DSM IV stands for, and as journalist in the reportage indirect remuneration. Only when we understand the substance abuse that effect and not the cause, it will fall scales from the eyes of some each.
The reason for the narrow vision when it comes to substance abuse today, even among professionals, due to a mentality historic shift in the West about "discrepancies". This turnaround resulted focus was aimed at personalizing responsibility for their own health, and that thereby ignoring social and cultural mechanisms behind the disease. Here newly formed notion of rational deciding individual, an individual the great gabsty who sees himself as his own business, and not least themselves as self-employment.
This shift changes epistemology or cognition teaching about phenomena such as drug abuse, the great gabsty since the term "social" is now being phased out. The shift can be read directly in the latest generation the great gabsty of Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders The development of DSM III, which came in 1980, changed the balance of power in American psychiatry and marked a break with the earlier psychoanalytic influence. Instead came a greater emphasis on biological explanations rooted in empirical studies (Kringlen, 2001). Then it is no longer talking about that one is fired from your job or that old woman traveling but about relaxing synapses and ailing neurons.
An archaeological excavation of the European diagnostic manual, ICD-10, used by psychiatrists in Norway, will reveal the same origin and the same tendencies. Associate Professor Peder M. Lysestøl at HIST illustrates this in his Editorial "Is no longer social problem" in Adresseavisen 20 June 2011 (http://www.adressa.no/meninger/article1650585.ece).
In an era where moral self-realization in line with the truth regimes that neoliberalism prescribes, the substance abuser the new culprit, and are shunned, as one was in medieval faith-based communities. Today's business and other formal and informal social organizations shun substance abuser.
Therefore, absent also treatment outcomes. The consequences are recurrence, relapse, recurrence, with an increasingly growing pressure on treatment. Which in turn leads to new rejection and following self-stigmatization. Bottle, syringe or tablets are the only solid clue, the one that does not fail when all else breeds.
The result is that drug addicts are referred to non-conformist groups like AA, AN and old hurts brothers whether they should have some kind of social contact. These groups also assists with the psychological reward primary groups provide, without requiring the intimate closeness that often causes anxiety among many substance abusers. Group affiliation with the non-conformist the great gabsty reinforces stigma and creates a negative spiral.
In this way the substance abuser caught in differing role, which he might so far has only played half-heartedly or unconsciously. He has passed his Rubicon. The road back to acceptance into normal society is virtually impossible. For many being repeated the great gabsty "cracks" just a confirmation of identity.
A limited section ruspasienter the great gabsty makes no summer. Filed under: alcohol abuse, work policy, housing, exclusion, ethics, financial crisis, chronic addicts, drug treatment Wed, June 30, 2011 at 1:06 pm
In a large landscaped reportage Trønder-Avisa June 17 discussed the opening of a new daily section for addicts at Levanger Hospital. There is good news, not least because limited section aims to explore the possibility of getting people with drug problems into work or education. As I see it, it is the only effective the great gabsty medicine against destructive consumption behaviors. The less pleasing is that the journalist goes astray in the causality qua addiction consists the great gabsty in. She writes: "(...) Many patients struggle with mental health problems, the great gabsty partly as a background for and partly as a consequence of drug use (...)" This is a far too narrow, and partly misleading presentation the great gabsty of the complex relationship that anrører substance.
When the journalist writes that mental problem is a consequence of drug use, she reflects neither how complex cultural and social factors involved in devastating substance abuse, nor the victim blaming she carries out with its normative and imprecise language. It is not, as I see it, drug use that is causing the mental problem. Comprehensive and harmful drug use, however, the rule action by social and cultural marginalization.
Therefore, I prefer the term drug abuse rather than substance, and understood as episodic or persistent substance that violate social and cultural norms, and that leads to exclusion from work and other social life, and that in consequence accentuates the norm-breaking and hazardous drug use with permanent or intermittent mental illness as a consequence. This understanding breaks partially with the endogenous orientation including the diagnostic criteria DSM IV stands for, and as journalist in the reportage indirect remuneration. Only when we understand the substance abuse that effect and not the cause, it will fall scales from the eyes of some each.
The reason for the narrow vision when it comes to substance abuse today, even among professionals, due to a mentality historic shift in the West about "discrepancies". This turnaround resulted focus was aimed at personalizing responsibility for their own health, and that thereby ignoring social and cultural mechanisms behind the disease. Here newly formed notion of rational deciding individual, an individual the great gabsty who sees himself as his own business, and not least themselves as self-employment.
This shift changes epistemology or cognition teaching about phenomena such as drug abuse, the great gabsty since the term "social" is now being phased out. The shift can be read directly in the latest generation the great gabsty of Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders The development of DSM III, which came in 1980, changed the balance of power in American psychiatry and marked a break with the earlier psychoanalytic influence. Instead came a greater emphasis on biological explanations rooted in empirical studies (Kringlen, 2001). Then it is no longer talking about that one is fired from your job or that old woman traveling but about relaxing synapses and ailing neurons.
An archaeological excavation of the European diagnostic manual, ICD-10, used by psychiatrists in Norway, will reveal the same origin and the same tendencies. Associate Professor Peder M. Lysestøl at HIST illustrates this in his Editorial "Is no longer social problem" in Adresseavisen 20 June 2011 (http://www.adressa.no/meninger/article1650585.ece).
In an era where moral self-realization in line with the truth regimes that neoliberalism prescribes, the substance abuser the new culprit, and are shunned, as one was in medieval faith-based communities. Today's business and other formal and informal social organizations shun substance abuser.
Therefore, absent also treatment outcomes. The consequences are recurrence, relapse, recurrence, with an increasingly growing pressure on treatment. Which in turn leads to new rejection and following self-stigmatization. Bottle, syringe or tablets are the only solid clue, the one that does not fail when all else breeds.
The result is that drug addicts are referred to non-conformist groups like AA, AN and old hurts brothers whether they should have some kind of social contact. These groups also assists with the psychological reward primary groups provide, without requiring the intimate closeness that often causes anxiety among many substance abusers. Group affiliation with the non-conformist the great gabsty reinforces stigma and creates a negative spiral.
In this way the substance abuser caught in differing role, which he might so far has only played half-heartedly or unconsciously. He has passed his Rubicon. The road back to acceptance into normal society is virtually impossible. For many being repeated the great gabsty "cracks" just a confirmation of identity.
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