medisation
Medisation refers to the increasing reliance on medication as a primary solution for a wide range of health and social issues. This phenomenon is characterized by the tendency to view many problems, from psychological distress and behavioral challenges to minor physical ailments, through a medical lens and to address them with pharmacological interventions. It encompasses the expansion of medical definitions to include conditions that were previously considered normal variations of human experience or social problems.
The concept of medisation suggests that societal norms and expectations may contribute to the pathologizing of