the disease model of addiction

Lady Liquor: The Racial Implications of the "Disease" Model of Alcoholism

Science post by christenmccurdy on December 10, 2012 - 3:54pm; tagged addiction treatment, alcoholism, First Nations, indigenous people, Native Americans, racism, the disease model of addiction.

The same way that evolutionary psychology (or at least, bad reporting on evolutionary research) often conveniently reinforces sexist stereotypes about the role of men and women in the 21st society, genetic explanations for alcoholism tend to reinforce preexisting stereotypes about certain ethnic groups and races

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