Anti-Drug Film: Drug Abuse – The Chemical Tomb (1969) – Video

Posted: Published on November 1st, 2011

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1969 thefilmarchived.blogspot.com In the first edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (published in 1952) grouped alcohol and drug abuse under Sociopathic Personality Disturbances, which were thought to be symptoms of deeper psychological disorders or moral weakness. The third edition, published in 1980, was the first to recognize substance abuse (including drug abuse) and substance dependence as conditions separate from substance abuse alone, bringing in social and cultural factors.

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