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UCLan Seminar "Reclaiming & Redefining Recovery"
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http://tinyurl.com/PrestonRecovery
- What do we mean by drugs?
- What do we understand about addiction?
- Who struggles to recover and why?
The people who struggle to recover often have damaged lives before addiction
Recovery is severely hindered by stigma and discrimination rooted in a hypocritical and misinformed 'Drug War'
Opportunities, support and social reintegration are more difficult in an era of austerity
The Social Context of Problematic Drug Use in England and the Challenges for Recovery
julianbuchanan@gmail.com
Demonisation, Blame, Fear, Rejection & Hate
set
setting
drug
CONCLUSION
Addiction has much more to do with set & setting rather than substance
Rat Park Prof Alexander
- deprivation
- alienation
- poverty
- hopelessness
- no alternative
The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit (2010)
Socially Constructed Distinctions
DRUGS
NON -DRUGS
legal and
commercially promoted
substances not generally perceived as 'drugs' embedded in leisure, pleasure & occasion
(c) Murray Wilson 2015
wmdynui@hotmail.com
legal pharmaceuticals
illegal
'drugs'
legal
highs
addictive substances?