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Pharmaceutical Addictions: A Theological Perspective

Class Begins

June 20, 2022!

 

This course will provide students with a general overview of pharmaceuticals with regard to their chemical/biological mechanisms, discovery, development, and marketing. In addition, students will begin to consider the addictive/dependent characteristics of drugs in general,  with special attention given to those properties of psychotropic and narcotic pharmaceuticals. Students will explore pharmaceutical commerce, as well as the mass-market rise and popularity of drugs which lead to these addictions/dependencies. Students will gain a theological perspective of what is truly a ‘physically’ necessary/life-sustaining mediation vs those which are not, and will also become more aware of “big-pharma” driving the “patient-labels” and diagnoses of the medical establishment which lead to unwarranted prescribing of medication that may be unneeded, unhelpful, or harmful.

Students will learn

  • Objective 1

Explain the basic concept of pharmaceutical discovery and mechanisms, the process of drug development, and the idea of the rise in marketing drugs directly to consumers by creating new diagnoses for “normal” human issues by defining them as a disease.

  • Objective 2

Summarize the notion of the general public not questioning the medical establishment, a non-need being artificially created by “expert opinion”, and the difference in the physical/spiritual aspects of the New Birth Experience with regard to physical-medical needs vs spiritual ones.

  • Objective 3

Describe the fundamental characteristics of addiction vs dependence with regard to the idea of “need versus want”, explore the question of “what am I dependent upon?”, and the addictive potential of various substances.

There are two LIVE sessions for this course. The dates of the live sessions are Mondays, June 20th and 27th at 6PM PST.