Cultural Influences
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Cultur has a major role. I have been in ALaska my whole life, and the natives here act like children who have discovered candy for the first time. The have no cultural residue that says "Don't drink to much". They have'nt taught that to eachother effectively. I'm mostly talking about the ones who still live in the bush areas.
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....at insisting they "at least never used meth". Look also at the growing reputation of certain NA groups, frequently in more tony suburbs in the US, as "meth-head biker clubs", as one interviewee (of mine) described them. At how many self-professed "non-alcoholic addicts" attend AA, not NA, due to the general (or perceived) notion of AA consisting of higher educational & socio-economic people. I'd love to see studies, actually, on this growing cultural phenom storming "recovery culture".
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The drugs favored by various American subcultures, especially in the under-30 population, is ALSO extremely fluid--and bound by class structures, which Americans generally do not want to admit exist in their midst. Drugs go in & out of vogue, certain ones have stigmas (or heroic reputations even) based on socio-economic class, subculture adherence, etc. Look the disdain amongst the more well off youth for meth, for example, even interviews in rehabs where kids brag about being junkies but.....
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The same applies to the Native Australians...
But... unfortunately... the AOD treatment fraternity and the medico establishment in Australia (and I suspect also in the US) look at the "alcoholism" rates amongst these indigenous cultures and say "See? Told ya so! There's a biological difference between the races and these races haven't evolved the gene for alcohol tolerance! THERE'S THE EVIDENCE!!!"...
And on, and on, and on it goes...
Disease advocates will NEVER let up...
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Severian6of9Nessus 2 years ago 3
In a nutshell, true.
stantonpeele 2 years ago