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By Jennifer Murphy
Is drug dependancy a ailment that may be taken care of, or is it against the law that are meant to be punished? In her probing learn, affliction or Deviance?, Jennifer Murphy investigates a few of the views on habit, and the way society has myriad methods of dealing with it—incarcerating a few drug clients whereas placing others in treatment.
Illness or Deviance? highlights the confusion and contradictions approximately labeling dependancy. Murphy’s fieldwork in a drug courtroom and an outpatient drug therapy facility yields attention-grabbing insights, corresponding to how courts
and therapy facilities either implement the “disease” label of dependancy, but their administration strategies overlap therapy with “therapeutic punishment.” The “addict" label is a outcome not only of utilizing medications, but in addition of being part of the drug way of life, by means of promoting medicinal drugs. furthermore, Murphy observes that drug courts and therapy amenities profit economically from their cooperation, making a very robust institutional arrangement.
Murphy contextualizes her findings inside theories of clinical sociology in addition to criminology to spot the coverage implications of a medicalized view of habit.
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United States (1919) addressed the question of whether it was l egal for physicians to prescribe opiates to addicts for “maintenance” purposes (that is, to prevent opiate addicts from experiencing withdrawal symptoms). Webb, who had been prescribing narcotics to addicts, argued that he could do so u nder provisions of the Harrison Act, the court ruled that such uses were not legitimately medical and therefore w ere not permissible. However, this decision was essentially overturned in Lindner v.
At the same time that penalties were increasing, the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association were becoming more vocal in their appeal for policies that recognized addiction as a medical problem rather than a criminal one (Tracy and Acker 2004). Despite these attempts, however, the criminalization of drug possession and selling expanded significantly in the 1950s. While Nixon’s War on Drugs in the 1970s focused heavily on expanding drug treatment, there w ere also increased penalties enacted at the same time.
While the number of addicts declined into the twentieth century, the demographics of the addict population shifted significantly during that time period. At the turn of the twentieth century, drug users were found among all social classes; the typical addict was actually a wealthy, m iddle-aged female. By 1920, however, the addict population was concentrated among the lower social class, and addicts were more likely to be young and male (Courtwright 2001). This demographic shift led to increased public concern for dealing with drug addicts (Acker 2002).