All Outputs (15)

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.

Drugs decriminalization: The art of governing drug using populations (2019)
Book Chapter

In the last fifteen years or so drugs decriminalization has (re)emerged as a pragmatic response to the ‘drug problem’, with the Portuguese model widely recognized as an alternative to drugs prohibition. The history of similar initiatives, however, te... Read More about Drugs decriminalization: The art of governing drug using populations.

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.

Coming off drugs in prison: Drug withdrawal and prison time (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper reports on findings from a qualitative study on experiences of coming off heroin in prison. Existing research is mostly evaluation studies of professional treatment services in which drug dependent prisoners are conceptualised as passive re... Read More about Coming off drugs in prison: Drug withdrawal and prison time.

Evaluation of the Police and Young People Together project (2015)
Report

Historical construction of heroin withdrawal: A work in progress (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

From poison to problem: Governing the drug using population (2012)
Thesis

Contemporary approaches to the treatment of problematic drug use situate the individual within a complex system of power-relations. This system of power-relations operates through a wide range of experts, techniques, strategies, institutions and subj... Read More about From poison to problem: Governing the drug using population.

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.

Heroin withdrawal: A body in crisis (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Bringing the outside inside: Power, substance misuse and recovery capital (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

From the steps to the syringe: A foucauldian analysis of contemporary drug treatment. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Using grounded theory with foucauldian methods (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution