Stigma, gender and perceptions of recovery in Scotland: a qualitative study of injecting drug users attending methadone treatment

John McPhee, Anne Brown

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    Abstract

    This presentation explores how injecting opiate users on a methadone treatment programme experience stigma as addicts, and service users in pharmacy and medical settings. We explore motivations for injecting, which we will suggest, create conditions for experiencing shame at the micro interactional level, influenced by macro institutional factors. The Scottish drug policy document ‘The Road to Recovery’ (2008) defines recovery as ‘drug free’, creating potential for stigma of service users receiving methadone maintenance treatment.
    Original languageEnglish
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014
    EventEWODOR European Working Group on Drugs Oriented Research 15th International Symposium - Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
    Duration: 22 May 201423 May 2014

    Conference

    ConferenceEWODOR European Working Group on Drugs Oriented Research 15th International Symposium
    Country/TerritoryIreland
    CityDublin
    Period22/05/1423/05/14

    Keywords

    • drugs research
    • Psychological Theory
    • Sociology of the body
    • addictive behaviour

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