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The governance of female drug users : Women's experiences of drug policy

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This book is about the ways in which the governance of illicit drug use shapes female users’ lives. It examines how women drug users’ subjectivities, and hence their experiences, are shaped and regulated by drug policies. The construction of female users’ subjectivities in policy discourse and the impact the characteristics ascribed to them has on these women’s experiences are explored. The insights are based on in-depth accounts from the perspectives of women users themselves. It is argued that in the regulation of illicit drug-using women, particular subjectivities are constructed which, in themselves, become part of the narrative sustaining women in their problematic drug use. It is suggested that women users experience drug policy as something that exacerbates their social and economic marginalisation, and contributes to their lives being plunged into further poverty, social and economic marginalisation.

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362.293 DUR g

Publisher

: ., 2015

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-4473-5472-7

Classification

362.293

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

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Subject(s)

Drug abuse

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Statement of Responsibility

Natasha Du Rose

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Cataloger

maya

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