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Topic -Substance Abuse (Opioid and Heroin Crisis, Medical-Industrial Complex, Youth Binge Drinking) Social Disciplines-(Economics & Psychology)

Your final paper should include the following: A brief discussion of your social issue, and how it rises to the level of social concern. A brief discussion of each of the social science disciplines you have selected to gain insight on this social issue. Discuss the main goals of these disciplines as discussed in Part II of your textbook. Using the sources selected in week 3, analyze how your selected social science disciplines have examined your selected social issue.

In your examination, identify if the authors used qualitative or quantitative methodologies and why they selected these methods. Discuss one similarity and at least two key differences in the approaches or conclusions of these studies and relate these to the disciplines involved.

Explain, based upon your research, how using research from two social science disciplines can lead to a more complete understanding of social issues than only using research from a single discipline. In other words, how do the approaches and conclusions of your sources contribute to an interdisciplinary understanding of the topic? How is this a more complete understanding than a set of conclusions from sources only in one discipline? Finally, explain how this interdisciplinary understanding might be applied within a social context in order to attempt to address this social issue.