Class Drug and addictive behaviors

This uc aims to invite students to risk situations, behaviors and circumstances derived from the consumption of illicit substances (known as drugs). In addition to the conceptual framework inherent to the addictive behaviors, elements will be provided on the management of the phenomenon of drug addiction over time, especially since the beginning of the 20th century, but with particular accuracy regarding the constructive decriminalization phase. More than the evolutionary trajectory, It is important to draw attention to the inherent rationalities. Other regimes will be discussed dependence, such as affective, alcoholic, internet and compulsive gambling. Cumulatively, students will have to train in the field of prevention, an area in which many will carry out the activity It is unnecessary to emphasize the relevance of these subjects in the teaching and learning of Criminology, both more than that future criminologists will intervene in fields where addictions are frequent.

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History of drugs and addiction Drugs, Power and Knowledge. Scientific foundations Classifications of drugs. New drugs. Other addictions; addictions without substance. Diagnosis criteria (DSM-V) Drug addiction: subject and behaviour patterns. Nosology. Co-dependency. Comorbility. Lifestyles Addictive behaviour, adolescence and youth: key explanatory theories. Risk situations. Types of occasional consumption. Addictions and ageing Drug addiction and criminality. Explanatory models. Deviations and drug-crime career. Emerging criminality Criminalization of drugs: periods The decriminalization policy; new strategies. Political intervention. The Portuguese experience and the creation of CDT : structure; psychologization of intervention and legal-psychological nature. Clinical mechanisms. Consumption prevention: levels; global nature. Risk reduction and harm minimization. Construction of prevention and intervention programmes.

In addition to the expository component, contact with social and institutional scenarios will be privileged, for example with the CDT (Commissions for the Dissuasion of Drug Addiction), municipalities and clinical devices, along with several IPSS that work in the field. Cumulatively with the work outside the classroom, reflection on the drug-crime relationship will be promoted based on texts or the presence of specialists. 

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