An Injecting Drug User Is at Increased Risk of Acquiring

question 8

Multiple Choice

An injecting drug user is at increased risk of acquiring

• A)tetanus.
• B)malaria.
• C)hepatitis C.
• D)all of the above.
• E)none of the above.

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Definitions:

Symbolic Interaction Theory

Theory that people make sense of the world based on their interpretation of words or symbols used by others.

Semantics

The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning, including the relations between signs and what they denote.

Dissonance Theory

A psychological model proposing that inconsistency among beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors creates discomfort leading to an alteration in one of them to reduce the dissonance.

Allness

A communicative error assuming one knows all there is to know about a particular subject, therefore oversimplifying complex entities or experiences.