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Abstract
In Denmark, outpatient substitution treatment has traditionally been associated with a great deal of ambivalence and control. Until the late 1990s, a condition for entering substitution treatment was that the user ceased using illicit drugs. Failure to comply would in many cases mean expulsion from treatment. However, since the late 1990s/early 2000s, a more liberal substitution treatment policy has developed, which recognizes continued attachments to illicit drugs and drug scenes for many drug users. With this shift in treatment rationality, treatment encounters between social workers and drug users can be analyzed as experiments enacting new relations between legal and illegal drugs, bodies, and environments. Drawing analytical inspiration from material semiotics and actor-network theory, this article focuses on how “outside” relations are articulated and become visible “inside” outpatient treatment encounters. Against this backdrop, we analyze the trial and error involved in stabilization as a set of ongoing processes relating to configurations of heterogeneous material networks. The article presents by way of a case study a detailed analysis of these entanglements, drawing on data from two qualitative studies of outpatient substitution treatment in Denmark.
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Affiliation(s)
- Bjarke Nielsen
- Business and Social Sciences, Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
- Department of Anthropology, Center for Cultural Epidemics, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Business and Social Sciences, Centre for Alcohol and Drug Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
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Hughes CE, Ritter A, Cowdery N. Legislating thresholds for drug trafficking: A policy development case study from New South Wales, Australia. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DRUG POLICY 2014; 25:992-1000. [DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2013] [Revised: 02/10/2014] [Accepted: 03/13/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Opioid pharmacotherapy: Treatment, regimes, constructions and control. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DRUG POLICY 2013; 24:e1-5. [DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2013] [Revised: 07/24/2013] [Accepted: 08/10/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The politics of providing opioid pharmacotherapy. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DRUG POLICY 2013; 24:e6-10. [DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2013] [Revised: 09/14/2013] [Accepted: 09/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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