Current Social Thought on Alcohol and Marijuana: A Quantitative Exploration
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Drug Issues
- Vol. 15 (1) , 111-117
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002204268501500111
Abstract
Social thought on alcohol and drugs has undergone a process of medicalization in recent years. Now we see the possible emergence of a public health model, characterized by renewed concern with the substance alcohol and a systemic or ecological view of the user. Through a secondary analysis of data collected by L. Harris and Associates in 1974 for the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, this paper attempts to address the following questions: Is such a public health model present in current thought on alcohol? Is such a model present in current thought on marijuana or is this substance in the process of being medicalized? How closely linked are the public's perception of these two drugs?Keywords
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