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A Fine Line‘Discovering’ Non-Medical (Ab)Use: The Meaning and Measurement of Non-Medical Consumption

A Fine Line: ‘Discovering’ Non-Medical (Ab)Use: The Meaning and Measurement of Non-Medical... [This chapter provides a critical overview of medical and epidemiological literature and research on non-medical pharmaceutical consumption. It discusses how the prevailing terminology in the field pathologizes everyday practices of pharmaceutical use and informal sharing, presenting such practices as a form of diversion into criminal networks. The chapter articulates how research about non-medical consumption also conflates a range of levels of drug consumption and exaggerates its relationship with criminality. It articulates how these processes of pathologization have constructed non-medical consumption as a major social and criminal problem, rather than a health issue, thus requiring the investment of public funds in surveillance and policing strategies.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Fine Line‘Discovering’ Non-Medical (Ab)Use: The Meaning and Measurement of Non-Medical Consumption

Dertadian, George C.
Springer Journals — Sep 16, 2018
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Publisher
Springer Singapore
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
ISBN
978-981-13-1974-7
Pages
73 –107
DOI
10.1007/978-981-13-1975-4_3
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Abstract

[This chapter provides a critical overview of medical and epidemiological literature and research on non-medical pharmaceutical consumption. It discusses how the prevailing terminology in the field pathologizes everyday practices of pharmaceutical use and informal sharing, presenting such practices as a form of diversion into criminal networks. The chapter articulates how research about non-medical consumption also conflates a range of levels of drug consumption and exaggerates its relationship with criminality. It articulates how these processes of pathologization have constructed non-medical consumption as a major social and criminal problem, rather than a health issue, thus requiring the investment of public funds in surveillance and policing strategies.]

Published: Sep 16, 2018

Keywords: abuseAbuse; consumptionConsumption; researchResearch; dependenceDependence; patientPatient

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