Becoming With Care in Drug Treatment Services - The Recovery Assemblage

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.

List of contents

Introduction: Reclaiming Recovery
1. Engagement with drug research through a feminist technoscientific lens
2. Thinking recovery with the Deleuzo-Guattarian assemblage
3. Methods as connection-building devices
4. Of other spaces: the birth of the heterotopia of recovery
5. Becoming a drug user - becoming a service-user
6. The Recovery Assemblage
7. Beyond the recovery assemblage
Conclusion: Services Interrupted

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lena Theodoropoulou, Lena (University of Liverpool Theodoropoulou
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9780367761240
• ISBN: 978-0-367-76124-0
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Coping with drug & alcohol abuse, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Alcohol, Coping with / advice about drug and alcohol problems