کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1075883 1486329 2008 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Trauma, damage and pleasure: Rethinking problematic drug use
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی روانپزشکی و بهداشت روانی
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Trauma, damage and pleasure: Rethinking problematic drug use
چکیده انگلیسی

BackgroundWhile the pleasures of drug use are sometimes acknowledged, they are normally limited to those who are socially privileged. The drug use of those who are impoverished and marginalised is linked instead to crime, social misery and addiction. Studying poverty in connection with drug use enriches our understanding of both poverty and drugs, but there are limitations to these connections, including their neglect of pleasure.MethodThis paper draws on 85 qualitative interviews with service providers and clients, conducted for a project entitled ‘Comparing the role of takeaways in methadone maintenance treatment in New South Wales and Victoria’. Critical readings of psychoanalysis are used as a conceptual frame.ResultsAlthough pleasurable and problematic drug use are often thought to be mutually exclusive, pleasure is reported from both the effects of drugs such as heroin and methadone, and from the social worlds of methadone maintenance treatment. Attention to drug users’ narratives of pleasure has the potential for new understandings of drug use and social disadvantage.ConclusionCommon distinctions between kinds of drug use, such as problematic and recreational, are less useful than is normally thought.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: International Journal of Drug Policy - Volume 19, Issue 5, October 2008, Pages 410–416
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