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The Abuse of Drug Abuse

Some Implications for Medicine and Religion

University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska 68105

Drug abuse is abused in that current approaches largely fail to recognize drug abuse as a symptom of underlying disease. The concerns of medicine, religion, and the state have been to correct the symptom, rather than to attack its causes, as our rapidly changing technologic society progressively deprives us all of several needs basic to our well-being. One response has been drug abuse, often arising from the hunger for love, understanding, and a meaning to life in our increasingly dehumanizing culture. Essential ingredients in the development of identity are religion and ritualization; if healthy, normative sources are unavailable or unattractive, drugs may be chosen. "In this paper I should like to discuss some lesser-realized aspects of drug abuse in a special group of our youth, to stress some root causes of the problem." Medicine and religion must communicate with and educate our youth and ourselves, and become advocates of youth's plight and needs. Details are given.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 11, No. 7, 386-394 (1972)
DOI: 10.1177/000992287201100707


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