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
Walmsley, I. (2023). Recognising the recovering addict with Honneth: An intervention into the stigmatising language debate in the alcohol and other drugs (AOD) field. Drugs, Habits and Social Policy, 24(3), 220-231. https://doi.org/10.1108/DHS-05-2023-0019

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
Walmsley, I. (2022). Self-detoxification, embodiment and masculinity: A qualitative analysis of dependent heroin users' experiences of coming off drugs in prison. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, 29(3), 245-254. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2021.1886252

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
Walmsley, I. (2019). Drugs decriminalization: The art of governing drug using populations. In S. Wilson (Ed.), Prohibitions and Psychoactive Substances in History, Culture and Theory: Prohibitions and Psychoactive Substances. Routledge

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
Walmsley, I. (2016). Coming off drugs: A critical history of the withdrawing body. Contemporary Drug Problems, 43(4), 381-396. https://doi.org/10.1177/0091450916666641

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
Walmsley, I. (2016, September). Coming off drugs in prison: Drug withdrawal and prison time. Paper presented at British Medical Sociology, Aston University, UK

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
Walmsley, I. (2015). Evaluation of the Police and Young People Together project

Historical construction of heroin withdrawal: A work in progress (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Walmsley, I. (2014, September). Historical construction of heroin withdrawal: A work in progress. Presented at British Medical Sociology Conference, Aston University, UK

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

Opiate substitution treatment: Poisoned bodies and the history of substitution (2013)
Journal Article
Walmsley, I. (2013). Opiate substitution treatment: Poisoned bodies and the history of substitution. Contemporary Drug Problems, 40(3), 387-413

From poison to problem: Governing the drug using population (2012)
Thesis
Walmsley, I. From poison to problem: Governing the drug using population. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/942606

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
Walmsley, I. (2012). Governing the injecting drug user: Beyond needle fixation. History of the Human Sciences, 25(4), 90-107. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952695112459135

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
Walmsley, I. (2011, November). Heroin withdrawal: A body in crisis. Paper presented at Nordic Network: Gender, Body and Health, University of Iceland, Reykjavik

Bringing the outside inside: Power, substance misuse and recovery capital (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Walmsley, I. (2010, September). Bringing the outside inside: Power, substance misuse and recovery capital. Paper presented at Power and Knowledge International Conference, University of Tampere, Finland

From the steps to the syringe: A foucauldian analysis of contemporary drug treatment. (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Walmsley, I. (2010, June). From the steps to the syringe: A foucauldian analysis of contemporary drug treatment. Paper presented at Substance Misuse PhD Symposium, Oxford Brookes University

Using grounded theory with foucauldian methods (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Walmsley, I. (2008, June). Using grounded theory with foucauldian methods. Paper presented at University of the West of England Graduate School Conference, University of the West of England