Framing Drug Use [recurso electrónico] : Bodies, Space, Economy and Crime

This book examines the forces that shape psychoactive drug use. The approach, informed by poststructuralist semiotics, culture, phenomenology and contemporary theories of affect, illuminates the connections between drugs, bodies, space, economy and crime. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction: Who Is Responsible?....Pages 1-6 Navigating a Pharmacoanalysis....Pages 7-12 The Image of Drug Desire....Pages 13-29 Syringes, Metonymy, Global Fear and News....Pages 30-54 The Rave Assemblage....Pages 55-81 Faciality and Drug Photography....Pages 82-122 The Spatial Economies of Drug Dealing....Pages 123-141 Drinking as a Global ‘Mo’-vement Assemblage....Pages 142-164 Drugs and the Abject....Pages 165-180 Drugs and Transitional Economies....Pages 181-205 Neuroenablement and Hope....Pages 206-228 Pharmacological Omnipotence and Sexual Violence....Pages 229-254 Drug Epistemologies....Pages 255-258 Back Matter....Pages 259-289 Framing Drug Use examines the forces that shape the way we use drugs. The book analyses space, streetscapes, languages, signs, photographs, stories, routines, social organisations and the frameworks of everyday life, which contribute to drug-related harm. This variously implicates the forces of economics, emotion, physical pleasure and culture. John Fitzgerald importantly proposes a new set of tools and a new framework for analyzing drug problems. The new framework suggests that care, compassion and responsibility might come to replace blame and punishment as central terms that define how we approach drug control