Cultural, Social, and Historical Overview of Alcohol- and Drug-Related Problems
X128 (2 semester units in Public Health)
Political and social contexts shape our views about and responses to drug use. This course explores the cultural and historical roots of evolving alcohol and drug policy in American society. Traditional substance-abuse service systems are investigated, as are critiques of the "war on drugs," and pressures to reform and innovate.
Guest speaker: Tracey Lee, founding member of Recovery Advocates for Treatment.
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Mon. Sept. 22, San Francisco
KEVIN MCGIRR, M.A., RN, is the acting director of Quality Management in the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Community Behavioral Services. He maintains a private practice, facilitates behavioral health groups for Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, and is adjunct and lecturer faculty in nursing at UCSF, in public health at SFSU, and in social work at SJSU.
- 10 meetings
- Sept. 22 to Dec. 8: Mon., 6:30-9:30 pm (no meetings Sept. 29 and Nov. 10)
- San Francisco: Room 809, UC Berkeley Extension Downtown Center, 425 Market St., 8th Floor (enter on Fremont St.)
- $365 (EDP 408765)
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Mon. June 30, San Francisco
JOHN DE MIRANDA, Ed.M., is the founding executive director of the National Association on Alcohol, Drugs, and Disability, a grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a consultant to the Lindesmith Center Drug Policy Foundation. He earned a graduate degree in counseling psychology from Harvard University.
KEVIN MCGIRR, M.A., RN, is the acting director of Quality Management in the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Community Behavioral Services. He maintains a private practice, facilitates behavioral health groups for Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, and is adjunct and lecturer faculty in nursing at UCSF, in public health at SFSU, and in social work at SJSU.Revised class schedule in red.
- 10 meetings
- June 30 to July 30: Mon. and Wed., 6:30-9:30 pm
- San Francisco: Room 811, UC Berkeley Extension Downtown Center, 425 Market St., 8th Floor (enter on Fremont St.)
- $365 (EDP 404400)
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