All Outputs (7)

Coping with the persistence of stigma in recovery: A qualitative examination of the disclosure experiences of people in recovery from problem drug use from the perspective of modified labelling theory (2025)
Journal Article

Disclosing a stigmatized identity presents a significant challenge for individuals in recovery from problematic drug use. Recovery is defined here as a socially mediated process that does not necessarily require abstinence but involves improvements a... Read More about Coping with the persistence of stigma in recovery: A qualitative examination of the disclosure experiences of people in recovery from problem drug use from the perspective of modified labelling theory.

Recognising the recovering addict with Honneth: An intervention into the stigmatising language debate in the alcohol and other drugs (AOD) field (2023)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of the recommendation to replace identity-first language with person-first language on people who self-identify as recovering addicts as part of a recovery programme. Narcotics Anonymous (NA)... Read More about Recognising the recovering addict with Honneth: An intervention into the stigmatising language debate in the alcohol and other drugs (AOD) field.

Self-detoxification, embodiment and masculinity: A qualitative analysis of dependent heroin users' experiences of coming off drugs in prison (2021)
Journal Article

Not all heroin users that enter the prison estate continue to use heroin or access opiate maintenance or detoxification treatment programmes. Some prisoners decide to self-detoxify. The literature on self-detoxification is thin and focuses on the dec... Read More about Self-detoxification, embodiment and masculinity: A qualitative analysis of dependent heroin users' experiences of coming off drugs in prison.

Coming off drugs: A critical history of the withdrawing body (2016)
Journal Article

Heroin withdrawal is perhaps one of the most taken-for-granted components of the addiction framework. Heroin users as well as researchers, policy makers, and practitioners have become dependent on it for thinking about and acting upon the process of... Read More about Coming off drugs: A critical history of the withdrawing body.

Decriminalisation and the art of governing drug using populations: The swinging pendulum of power (2014)
Journal Article

Opiate substitution treatment: Poisoned bodies and the history of substitution (2013)
Journal Article

Governing the injecting drug user: Beyond needle fixation (2012)
Journal Article

This article offers a critical contribution to the debate on a problematic 'type' of injecting drug use referred to as needle fixation. At the heart of this debate, is a questioning of the existence, prevalence and usefulness of the needle fixation c... Read More about Governing the injecting drug user: Beyond needle fixation.