Medicalisation, morality, and addiction : why we should be wary of problem gamblers in primary care
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Medicalisation, morality, and addiction: why we should be wary of problem gamblers in primary care.
1 critiques of medicalisation may have become less fashionable, but no less necessary. The continuing need for a critical perspective on medicalisation is apparent at a time when the UK media displays a violent backlash against people with drink and drug problems; when the British Prime Minister defines the optimal method to 'get drug addicts clean'; 2 and when the Chair of the RCGP endorses an...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of General Practice
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0960-1643,1478-5242
DOI: 10.3399/bjgp11x613197