Substance and Substitution Methadone Subjects

Located between three powerful phenomena, public health, the law and social stigma, methadone maintenance treatment attracts loyal advocates, vociferous critics and innumerable engaged onlookers. This book aims to examine the controversial approach to addiction, providing in the process a unique approach to literature on illicit drugs

Kylie Valentine is Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia.

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Methadone maintenance treatment in Western liberal societies	p. 3
Methadone as a problem for social research	p. 7
The political economies of methadone	p. 11
Making substance matter	p. 20
Assembling method	p. 27
Crafting order	p. 31
Substitution, Metaphor and Authenticity	p. 35
Theorising representation	p. 37
Compiling texts	p. 39
Metaphor	p. 40
Tracing metaphor	p. 44
The ontology of methadone	p. 53
Conclusion	p. 56
Governing Treatment	p. 58
Risk	p. 63
Interpretation	p. 73
Conclusion	p. 87
The Chronotope of the Queue	p. 91
What is a methadone dosing point?	p. 92
The temporality of drugs	p. 96
The chronotope	p. 100
The intra-activity of space and time	p. 102
A chronotope of waiting: The queue	p. 103
Conclusion	p. 111
Treatment Identities	p. 113
Making up people	p. 114
Biological citizenship	p. 116
Dissatisfied customers	p. 120
The stable user	p. 128
In need of guidance	p. 133
The lay carer	p. 136
Conclusion	p. 140
Repetition and Rupture: The Gender of Agency	p. 142
Defining addiction	p. 145
Constructing Sisyphus	p. 148
Gender and agency	p. 151
Repetition as change	p. 166
Conclusion	p. 168
Conclusion: Dependence, Contingency and the Productivity of Problems	p. 170
Gathering methadone maintenance treatment	p. 172
Research: representation: risk	p. 176
Becoming otherwise	p. 177
Notes	p. 182
Bibliography	p. 187
Index	p. 199
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