Overview
- Provides a long overdue full-length critical scholarly work on the subject of pharmaceutical opioid abuse
- Canvasses historical shifts in Australian drug policy and international literature on non-medical consumption
- Addresses the discursive construction of painkiller (ab)use as it is articulated in research and policy accounts
- Provides an original empirical investigation that draws on the lived experience of those who engage in non-medical consumption
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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The Way We Think About Non-Medical Use
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The Way People Experience Non-Medical Use
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About this book
The book is divided into two parts: the first addresses the discursive construction of painkiller (ab)use as articulated in research and policy accounts; the second part provides an empirical investigation that draws on the lived experience of those who engage in non-medical consumption. This book argues that, contrary to the stereotype of the ‘seductive’ drug that coaxes its user into a life of dysfunction, there appears to be an intimate relationship between the motivations of pleasure seeking, health practice and productive citizenship among people who use painkillers for non-medical reasons.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Fine Line
Book Subtitle: Painkillers and Pleasure in the Age of Anxiety
Authors: George C. Dertadian
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1975-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-1974-7Published: 26 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4713-9Published: 11 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-1975-4Published: 15 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 285
Topics: Medical Sociology, Cultural Studies