Addiction discourses by Lea Happ

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2024-02-13 17:00:29 UTC

Social media use among teenagers is framed as addiction

thsbeard39 — 2024-02-27 12:35:40 UTC

UK funneling money for drug treatment initiatives

2024-02-27 12:38:15 UTC

Falls into multiple categories with the primary 2 being in the realm of medicalizing drug treatment/addicition and decriminalizing the population by addressing drug addicition
It talks about them in multiple aspects: both as responsible for crimes and violence but also in need of support and help

2024-02-27 12:39:54 UTC

- Moralising, medicalising, and criminalising. Does not question the structural reasoning why individuals end up addicted, nor consider the complexities of fentanyl lacing but instead questions whether inmates should be treated for addiction.

Questioning after legislative ‘roll-back’ on drug decriminalized law that allows for the possession of personal amounts of illicit drugs such as heroin. As a result, many pushing for more funding for medications to treat opioid addiction in jails as inmate number is likely to increase.
Inherent trust and parental responsibility of the judicial and criminal system - case studies of young people wronged by the 'legal system' that supposedly has their best interests by containing their addiction to jail

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Spice

2024-02-27 12:46:42 UTC

Overdose is killing new mothers

2024-02-27 12:48:04 UTC

- addiction is centered around neonatal abstinence syndrome (child deals with withdrawal symptoms from drugs mother took)

-medicalising mothers (trauma informed approach, offering more clinical approaches)

doesn't consider structural factors)