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406 - Section on Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco Paper Session. Examining Addiction: Critical Perspectives (co-sponsored with the Section on Sexualities)
Mon, August 22, 2:30 to 4:10pm, TBASession Submission Type: Paper Session 100min
Description
This session will explore the construction and deployment of the concept "addiction" as applied to sex, drugs, and other sources of human pleasure and pain relief. Topics may include the cultural framing of addiction and addiction theories; responses to addiction; cultural anxieties over desire and loss of self-control; social responses to and the policing of pleasure
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Targeted Policing or Sin Taxes on Sex? The Relationship between Adult Dance Clubs and Human Trafficking - Joshua Fink, Duke University; Kenneth C. Land
Because They Took Fake IDs: An Alcohol Drug Scare in New Orleans - Robert Kappel, SUNY Buffalo/Tulane University
The Social Re-construction of Marijuana: From Illegal Substance to Legal Medicine - Aukje Lamonica, Southern CT State University; Miriam W. Boeri, Bentley University
Marijuana, the Gateway Theory, and the Treatment Industrial Complex - Miriam W. Boeri, Bentley University; Aukje Lamonica, Southern CT State University
Health in the Tenderloin: A Resident-Guided Study of Substance Use, Treatment, and Housing - Jamie Suki Chang, University of California-SF