Russia: Opium, the new religion

Alec Ramsdell aramsdell at yahoo.com
Thu May 24 14:49:17 PDT 2001


Charles Brown wrote:


> There is such a thing as people who lose their
> health to overuse of drugs, drug addiction

And those who lose their health due to incarceration over minor drug offenses. Does the first line of the article,


>The economic and social crisis ensuing from the
>collapse of the Soviet
>Union
>has pushed many to seek solace in drugs,

suggest that pop addiction attribution is turning away from the bio-psycho disease model, and its accompanying personal responsibility ideology, to the role of socio-economic and systemic crises?

Alec

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