Substance and Substitution

Methadone Subjects in Liberal Societies

By: Suzanne Fraser, Kylie Dr Valentine

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Hardcover | 15 May 2008 | Edition Number 1

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Located between three powerful phenomena - public health, the law and social stigma - methadone maintenance treatment attracts loyal advocates, vociferous critics and innumerable engaged onlookers. This book combines contemporary science studies theory with in-depth interviews, policy documents and media texts to examine this controversial approach to addiction, providing a unique approach to the understanding of illicit drugs. Arguing that methadone maintenance treatment depends for its rationale on two contradictory, yet equally powerful, images - the disordered, compulsive heroin user and the responsible, choosing subject of contemporary health care - this book traces the ways the program both reproduces and disrupts conventional understandings of what it means to be human, a citizen, a woman or man, questioning, as it does so, the conditions under which treatment is delivered.

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'Substance and Substitution is an extremely impressive work of scholarship and a genuine advance on existing studies of methadone maintenance treatment and of drug use more generally. It marries innovative theory with diverse empirical materials, and goes beyond a number of well-established binaries (e.g. resistance/conformity, social/material, body/mind, morality/medicine) in trying to understand the 'co-production' of substance, time, identities and gender.' - David Moore, Associate Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Australia.

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Methadone maintenance treatment in Western liberal societies	p. 3
Methadone as a problem for social research	p. 7
The political economies of methadone	p. 11
Making substance matter	p. 20
Assembling method	p. 27
Crafting order	p. 31
Substitution, Metaphor and Authenticity	p. 35
Theorising representation	p. 37
Compiling texts	p. 39
Metaphor	p. 40
Tracing metaphor	p. 44
The ontology of methadone	p. 53
Conclusion	p. 56
Governing Treatment	p. 58
Risk	p. 63
Interpretation	p. 73
Conclusion	p. 87
The Chronotope of the Queue	p. 91
What is a methadone dosing point?	p. 92
The temporality of drugs	p. 96
The chronotope	p. 100
The intra-activity of space and time	p. 102
A chronotope of waiting: The queue	p. 103
Conclusion	p. 111
Treatment Identities	p. 113
Making up people	p. 114
Biological citizenship	p. 116
Dissatisfied customers	p. 120
The stable user	p. 128
In need of guidance	p. 133
The lay carer	p. 136
Conclusion	p. 140
Repetition and Rupture: The Gender of Agency	p. 142
Defining addiction	p. 145
Constructing Sisyphus	p. 148
Gender and agency	p. 151
Repetition as change	p. 166
Conclusion	p. 168
Conclusion: Dependence, Contingency and the Productivity of Problems	p. 170
Gathering methadone maintenance treatment	p. 172
Research: representation: risk	p. 176
Becoming otherwise	p. 177
Notes	p. 182
Bibliography	p. 187
Index	p. 199
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