Producing the ‘problem of drugs’: A cross national-comparison of ‘recovery’ discourse in two Australian and British reports

• Published in: The International journal of drug policy Vol. 26; no. 7; pp. 617 - 625
• Main Authors: Lancaster, Kari, Duke, Karen, Ritter, Alison
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.07.2015; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Australia; Authority; Britain; Carol Bacchi; Citizenship; Discourse analysis; Drug and Narcotic Control - legislation & jurisprudence; Drug policy; Drug Users - legislation & jurisprudence; Drugs; Great Britain; Health Policy - legislation & jurisprudence; Humans; Internal Medicine; International comparisons; Jurisdiction; Medical Education; Patients; Policy Making; Problematisation; Recovery; Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology; Substance-Related Disorders - prevention & control; United Kingdom; United Kingdom > UK; Australia; Drug policy; Britain; Australia; Recovery; Carol Bacchi; Problematisation

•We examine how the problem of drugs was constituted in two reports on ‘recovery’.•The problem of drugs was represented as ‘dependence’ alone in both documents.•People who use drugs were constructed as either ‘responsibilised’ or ‘patientised’.•Conditional citizenship is reinforced in both documents...