All Outputs (2)

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.