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.


Answer: a

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