SOWK 2003: DRUGS IN SOCIETY: OUTLINE OF WEEKLY SESSIONS
Carleton University School of Social Work SOWK2003 – Drugs in Society: Theory, Policy and Practice Spring 2012 Instructor: Phone Number: Email:
Gundel Lake, M.S.W., R.S.W. 325-8186
[email protected] *preferred method of contact*
Office Hours:
by appointment only
COURSE DESCRIPTION PURPOSE This course examines the extent and nature of alcohol and other drug use from a structural social work perspective and suggests strategies for social work practice. It offers theoretical explanations of drug use and dependence; provides a historical context for drug policy; and, explores various government initiatives to deal with issues of drug use and abuse. The course also addresses the following topics related to drugs and society: drugs in advertising, physical and emotional effects of drugs, models and approaches to addiction treatment, the impact of addiction on family and society, and diversity, drug use, and dependence.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. To learn what is meant by “structural social work” and its application to the study of drug use. 2. To understand factors that influence the use of alcohol and other drugs (AOD), as well as seeking and accessing help. 3. To develop a beginning knowledge of how AOD affect the brain and the body. 4. To examine alcohol and drug policy in Canada, and promotion and prohibition of AOD in a freemarket society. 5. To examine and critically analyze major theoretical frameworks that explains addiction. 6. To gain awareness of the ways in which dependency is defined and of practice strategies in helping. 7. To examine the major current treatment modalities and philosophies, and to begin to develop a structural framework from which to practice.
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SOWK 2003: DRUGS IN SOCIETY: OUTLINE OF WEEKLY SESSIONS
SCHEDULE OF TIMES AND DATES This course is offered in DT517 over the spring term 2012. Class will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30pm to 8:30pm, beginning Tuesday May 8th and concluding on Tuesday June 19th. There will be a 15 minute break at approximately 7:00pm.
REQUIRED READINGS Required readings for this course are contained in a Coursepack, Drugs and Society, available for purchase at Allegra Print and Imaging, 1069 Bank Street. Additional assigned readings are available on Ares, Carleton’s electronic course reserve management system. Required readings for each week are listed below under “Outline of Sessions”. A “C” indicates the article of in the Coursepack; “Ares” indicates it is on Ares.
COURSE EVALUATION This course will be evaluated as follows: 1.
ESSAY (20% of final grade) Students will write an essay on the topic: “What is structural social work and how can it inform the study of drug use in society?” See assignment sheet for additional instructions. Due Date: Tuesday May 22nd at the beginning of class
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CLASS PRESENTATION (30% of final grade) The assignment: Students will make a 15 minute presentation to the class, designed to educate your colleagues on a topic of your choice, as long as it relates to the general course topic, “Drugs in Society”. More details about this assignment will be provided in class.
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Final Paper (40% of final grade) Students will prepare a final paper on a topic relevant to the course. Guidelines for final paper: Length: 3500 – 4200 words (10-12 pages: 350 words/page, 12pt font, double spaced) Minimum 8 academic sources Bibliography to be included as last page of the paper (though bibliography does not count towards the final word count)
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SOWK 2003: DRUGS IN SOCIETY: OUTLINE OF WEEKLY SESSIONS
Papers will be graded in accordance with the following: 60% of the mark – Content: Structure of the paper, discussion and analysis of the issue(s) 40% of the mark – Style: Organization, spelling, grammar, and writing style Additional details regarding the selection of the topic and on the evaluation of the paper will be provided in class. Students who wish to have their final papers returned must provide a stamped, self-addressed envelope when submitting their paper. IT IS NO LONGER POSSIBLE TO COLLECT UNDERGRADUATE PAPERS FROM THE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK. DUE DATE: June 19th, FINAL DAY OF CLASSES AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS
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ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION (10% of the final grade) This portion of the grade will be evaluated in accordance with the following: Contributions to class discussions Attendance in class Evidence of critical engagement with course readings. **Please note: Attendance alone will not guarantee you participation marks. It is your responsibility to come to class prepared to demonstrate your understanding of class readings and engagement with the weekly course material. An attendance sheet will be distributed at the beginning of each class. It is your responsibility to sign in so that you can receive attendance marks. If you arrive late to class, it is your responsibility to make sure that you sign in. Please note that participation marks are earned by being present in class.
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SOWK 2003: DRUGS IN SOCIETY: OUTLINE OF WEEKLY SESSIONS
GENERAL REMINDERS WRITING SKILLS It is expected that you are proficient in written English and will present your work in an academic format and style. Students who have any trouble with grammar, sentence structure, argument construction or overall essay organization are encouraged to visit Carleton’s Writing Tutorial Service for support. Check the webpage at www.carleton.ca/wts.
ACCOMODATION Students with disabilities needing academic accommodations are required to contact a coordinator at the Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities (500 University Centre: 520-6608) to complete the necessary letters of accommodations. You must then make an appointment with the Instructor to discuss your needs as soon as possible. Please note the deadline for submitting completed forms to the PMC; you must contact the Paul Menton Centre at least two weeks before the due date of the assignment.
ASSIGNMENTS ON TIME Assignments must be submitted on time. Handing in assignments late is unfair both to other students and the Instructor. In exceptional circumstances (illness or family emergency) it may be difficult to meet a deadline and in such cases, please speak to the Instructor before the paper is due. In these cases, extensions to the due date must be justified with a medical or other appropriate certificate. Work submitted after the final date without discussion with the Instructor will be deducted one letter grade for each day late. For example, a paper which has been graded B+ will receive a B for the first day overdue, a B- for the second day overdue, etc.
HANDING IN AND RETURNING ASSIGNMENTS Please keep an extra copy of your written assignment. Assignments that cannot be handed in at the beginning of class as required must be delivered to the main office (DT509) where they are datestamped. Please do not slip your paper under an office door. Unless otherwise negotiated with the Instructor, assignments will not be accepted via email or other electronic means: a hard copy is required.
PLAGIARISM Plagiarism is a serious academic offense with serious consequences. Plagiarism occurs when you: You directly copy another’s work without acknowledging it You closely paraphrase the equivalent of a short paragraph or more without acknowledging it You borrow without acknowledgement, any ideas in clear and recognizable form in such a way as to present them as your own thoughts, where if they were your ideas they would contribute to the merit of your work When you use direct quotations without quotation marks and references
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SOWK 2003: DRUGS IN SOCIETY: OUTLINE OF WEEKLY SESSIONS
Please refer to the Undergraduate Calendar for more information.
Outline of Weekly Sessions Class 1:
Tuesday May 8th, 2012
Topic:
Introductions and Expectations; Principles of Structural Social Work
Readings:
C - Lundy, Colleen. (2004). “Structural Social Work: Theory, Ideology, and Practice Principles,” Social Work and Social Justice, Peterborough: Broadview Press, 48-70. C - Carniol, Ben. (1992). “Structural Social Work: Maurice Moreau’s Challenge to Social Work Practice.” Journal of Progressive Human Services. 3(1): 1-20.
Class 2:
Thursday May 10th, 2012
TOPIC:
A Critical Analysis of Addiction: Ideology and Theory
Readings:
C- Alexander, Bruce K. (2008). “The Dislocation Theory of Addiction,” The Globalisation of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit. New York: Oxford University Press, 57-83. C- Mate, Gabor. (2008). “What is Addiction?” In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada. 127-131. C – Adams, Peter J. (2008). “Addiction and Connection,” Fragmented Intimacy: Addiction in a Social World. New York: Springer. 36 – 50.
Class 3:
Tuesday May 15th, 2012
Topic:
Drug Policy in Canada
Readings:
Ares- Gordon, Todd. (2006). “Neoliberalism, Racism, and the War on Drugs in Canada.” Social Justice, 33: 1, 59-78. C- Solomon, Robert and Sydney Usprich. (1991). “Canada’s Drug Laws.” Journal of Drug Issues, 21:1, 17-40.
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Class 4:
Thursday May 17th, 2012
Topic:
Drug Policy in Canada, cont’d
Readings:
Ares - Health Canada and Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse. (2005).“National Framework for Action to Reduce the Harms Associated with Alcohol and Other Drugs and Substances in Canada: Answering the Call” http://www.nationalframeworkcadrenational.ca/uploads/files/HOME/NatFRA1steditionEN.pdf C - Alexander, Bruce K. (2008). “Addiction is a Way of Adapting to Dislocation: The Myth of the Demon Drugs,” The Globalisation of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit. New York: Oxford University Press, 173 – 204. Ares– Mosher, Clayton J. (2011). “Convergence or Divergence? Recent Developments in Drug Policies in Canada and the United States.” American Review of Canadian Studies. 41(4): 370-386.
Class 5:
Tuesday May 22nd, 2012
Topic:
Prescription Medications: A Contradiction to the “War on Drugs”?
Readings:
C- Currie, Janet. (2007). “The Silent Addiction: Women and Prescribed Psychotropic Drugs,” Highs and Lows: Canadian Perspectives on Women and Substance Use. Eds. Nancy Poole and Lorraine Greaves. Toronto: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. C – Mintzes, Barbara. (2011). “ ‘Ask Your Doctor’: Women and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising.The Push to Prescribe: Women and Canadian Drug Policy. Eds. Anne Rochon Ford and Diane Saibil. Toronto: Women’s Press. 17 – 46. C – Keane, Helen. (2005). “Diagnosing the Male Steroid User: Drug Use, Body Image and Disordered Masculinity.” Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 9(2): 189-208. Ares – Bell, Kristin and Amy Salmon. (2009). “Pain, Physical Dependence and Pseudoaddiction: Redefining Addiction for “Nice” People?” International Journal of Drug Policy. 20: 170-178
DUE:
ESSAY - What is structural social work and how can it inform the study of drug use in society ?
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Class 6:
Thursday May 24th, 2012
Topic:
Physical and Emotional Effects of Drugs
Readings:
C- Mate, Gabor. (2008). “How the Addicted Brain Develops”. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada. 177-201. C-Mate, Gabor. (2008). “It’s Not in the Genes”. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada. 201-208. C- Mate, Gabor. (2008). “The Addiction Process and the Addictive Personality”. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada. 211-229. C – Kahan, Meldon. (2004). “Physical Effects of Alcohol and Other Drugs.” Alcohol and Drug Problems: A Practical Guide for Counsellors, 3rd Edition. Eds. Susan Harrison and Virginia Harrison. Toronto: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. 199-228. Also, read: “Do You Know” series that presents information on a variety of substances of abuse available online at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s website: www.camh.net/publications. Follow the links to the alphabetical index of titles for the “Do You Know” series.
Class 7:
Tuesday May 29th, 2011
Topic:
Diversity and Drug Use: An Overview
Readings:
Ares- Educ’alcool. (2006). “Alcohol and Older People”. C- Doctor, Farzana. (2004). Working with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender, Two-Spirit, Intersex and Queer (LGBTTTIQ) People Who Have Substance Use Concerns.” Alcohol and Drug Problems: A Practical Guide for Counsellors, 3rd Edition. Eds. Susan Harrison and Virginia Harrison. Toronto: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. 353-382. C- Briggs, Cynthia and Jennifer L. Pepperell. (2009). “Counselling Considerations for Women: Diversity Issues,” Women, Girls, and Addiction: Celebrating the Feminine in Counselling Treatment and Recovery. New York: Routledge. 120-126. C-Muck, Randolf, Kristin Zempolich, Janet Titus, Marc Fishman, Mark Godley and Robert Schwebel. (2001). “An Overview of the Effectiveness of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Models,” Youth and Society, 33:2. 143-168. C – Maracle, Brian. (1993). “Introduction.” Crazywater: Native Voices on Addiction and Recovery. Toronto: Penguin Books, Ltd. 1-15.
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Class 8:
Thursday May 31st, 2012
Topic:
Gender as a Mediating Factor: Highlighting “Women’s” Experiences
Readings:
Ares– Salmon, Amy, Nancy Poole, Marina Morrow, Lorraine Greaves, Richard Ingram, and Ann Pederson. (2006). “Improving Conditions: Integrating Sex and Gender into Federal Mental Health and Addictions Policy.” Vancouver: British Columbia Centre for Excellence in Women’s Health. C- Briggs, Cynthia and Jennifer L. Pepperell. (2009). “Feminist Theory and Addiction Counselling,”Women, Girls, and Addiction: Celebrating the Feminine in Counselling Treatment and Recovery. New York: Routledge. 3-12. C- Harrison, Susan and Eva Ingber. (2004). Working with Women.” Alcohol and Drug Problems: A Practical Guide for Counsellors, 3rd Edition. Eds. Susan Harrison and Virginia Harrison. Toronto: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. 247-271.
Class 9:
Tuesday June5th, 2012
Topic:
Treatment: Philosophies, Approaches, and Services
Readings:
Ares-Haden, Mark. (2002). “Illegal IV Drugs: A Public Health Approach,” Canadian Journal of Public Health, 93:6, 431-434. C - Denning, Pat (2000). “What is Harm Reduction.” Practicing Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: An Alternative Approach to Addictions. New York: Guilford Press. 3-26. C- Csiernik, Rick. (2002). “Determining the Value of Alcoholics Anonymous,” Canadian Social Work, 4:1, 14-22. C- Tallen, B.S. (1990). “Twelve Step Programs: A Lesbian Critique.” NWSA Journal, 2:3, 390-407. C- Single, Eric. (1995). “Defining Harm Reduction.” Drug and Alcohol Review. 14. 287290.
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Class 10:
Thursday June 7th, 2012
Topic:
Treatment: Philosophies, Approaches, and Services
Readings:
See Class 9.
Class 11:
Tuesday June 12th, 2012
Topic:
Class Presentations
Readings:
There are no readings for this week; however, attendance and participation is still expected.
Class 12:
Thursday June 14th, 2012
Topic:
Class Presentations
Readings:
There are no readings for this week; however, attendance and participation is still expected.
Class 13:
Tuesday June 19th, 2012
Topic:
Class Presentations
Readings:
There are no readings for this week; however, attendance and participation is still expected.
Due:
FINAL PAPER
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