| Course
Title |
Dates |
JLS-303 N01L
Drugs, Alcohol and Society |
5/11/09-
6/25/09 |
| Instructor: Jeffrey Schaler |
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This course will examine the vailidity of ideas
about addiction and their implications for public,
social, clinical, and legal policy. In addition, it
will examine in detail conflicting types of treatment for addiction, the efficacy of addiction treatment in general, First Amendment issues and
court-ordered addiction treatment, criminal responsibility, Alcoholics Anonymous and religious-conversion experience, use of mind-altering drugs
as religious activities and the ethics of attempts
to protect people from themselves advanced by
today's public health movement. |
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