Abstract

GARCIGA ORTEGA, Octavio. Addictive behaviors from a social perspective. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2013, vol.12, n.4. ISSN 1729-519X.

Introduction: during years the drug addiction considered a social problems itself and not join disease, the victim a social scum and no a sick person, it has been tried to conceal what's social like primary element in causality and aggravation of the disease, the same way that of his importance to being you join of the more spheres affected not only of the victim, but to family, communal level and inclusive of the nation. Objective: characterizing the essential elements where what's social expresses itself in the addictive conducts. Material and Methods: a bibliographical revision was carried out by means of the consultation of databases, as CUMED y PUBMED with the use of describers like drugs, scientific evidence, social approaches, society, of the five previous years to revision. Development: what's social is fundamental in the boarding of the addictive conducts, where his misrepresentation or showing a deficit focus in transcendental aspects like the conceptualization of the disease, the status of the victim like a sick person, the importance of the role that you perform the society in etiology and the rehabilitation of the addictive conducts many damages have caused to prevention and treatment effective of addictive conducts. Conclusions: they are due reevaluarse the social focuses that have characterized the addictive conducts, stripping them of the discriminatory character and bringing them closer to the scientific pansy and the new knowledge where the social reach his objective expression in the evolutionary process of the disease.

Keywords : drugs; scientific evidence; social approaches; society.

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