All Outputs (4)

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.

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.

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