38809 - The Paradigms of Addictions

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Planning and managing of educational intervention in social distress (cod. 9229)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will know: - the evolution throughout time of the different representations of a person with addiction and the reference paradigms; the forms and consumption styles of marginalised people using drugs anf of those who use drugs, but have a good social integration; - the use of psychoactive substances in minors and the phenomenology of cannabis, cocaine and alcohol; - know how to employ this knowledge in prevention projects

Course contents

Substance Use and Addiction.

Use/Abuse/Addiction

Cannabis

Heroin and other opioids

Cocaine

Stimulants and amphetamines

Alcohol

A Psychedelic history

Residential Treatment

Addiction and jail

Double Diagnosis

web, gaming, gambling

Prevention

Harm Reduction in Italy and Europe

Readings/Bibliography

1) In sostanza (2 volumi); a cura di Fabio Lugoboni e Lorenzo Zamboni, Ed. CLAD, 2018.

2) Rischio e desiderio; a cura di Pierfrancesco Pacoda, NFC edizioni, 2015.

3) Società, consumi, dipendenze; di Alfio Lucchini, Ed. Franco Angeli, 2014.

Teaching methods

Traditional lesson

Assessment methods

Oral discussion

Teaching tools

Slides, videoclips, movies

Office hours

See the website of Edoardo Polidori

SDGs

Good health and well-being

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.