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Becoming with Care in Drug Treatment Services

The Recovery Assemblage

Lena Theodoropoulou (University of Liverpool, UK)

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English
Routledge
30 November 2022
Employing Deleuzo–Guattarian orientations to assemblage and feminist approaches to care, this book offers a critique of neoliberal approaches to recovery from drugs and alcohol, while collapsing the dualities of harm reduction and recovery.

This monograph empirically explores the practices of care emerging in two drug recovery services in Liverpool and Athens. Following the flows of the participants’ desires, it argues that it is not the lack of the substance that holds the recovery assemblage together, but the production of connections that enhance a body’s power of acting, constituting recovery a practice of collective care. The outcome of the analysis of the lived experiences of people in recovery is a call for the dismissal of policy as an intervention coming from outside, and its reconstitution as a practice produced inside the recovery assemblage.

Focusing on the value of the assemblage as a viable methodological, ontological and epistemological orientation for critical drug studies, this volume contributes to the sociology of health and illness and will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Deleuzian Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology and Social Policy, Drugs and Addiction, Public Health and Medical Anthropology.
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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   557g
ISBN:   9780367760168
ISBN 10:   0367760169
Series:   Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
Pages:   204
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Lena Theodoropoulou is Lecturer in Public Health at the University of Liverpool.

Reviews for Becoming with Care in Drug Treatment Services: The Recovery Assemblage

As despair increasingly becomes the norm, so too is it clear that the standard ways for addressing it no longer work, if they ever did. This is particularly clear when it comes to addiction. In this timely and original book, Lena Theodoropoulou reimagines practices of recovery and care with a compelling alternative grounded in ethnographic research. It is just this kind of reimagining - empirically-grounded and theoretically sophisticated - that we need today. This book is necessary reading for anyone interested in addiction and recovery. Jarrett Zigon, Porterfield Chair of Bioethics and Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia, USA; author of HIV is God's Blessing: Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia and A War on People: Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community Becoming with Care establishes a provocative new orientation to the field of critical drug studies, outlining a means of inhabiting the lifeworlds of people who use drugs so that we might better appreciate the relations of care and mutuality that sustain these worlds. By emphasising relations of care, the book proposes a powerful new ethics for responding to contemporary drug problems, and a compelling new vision of health, wellbeing and recovery. Cameron Duff, Associate Professor, RMIT University, Australia


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