Multiple Choice
An example of the "medicalization of deviance" is
A) theft being redefined as a "compulsive stealing."
B) drinking too much being redefined as a personal failing.
C) promiscuity being redefined as a moral failing.
D) when people steal drugs to self-medicate.
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