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

John McPhee; Anne Brown

doi:10.1108/DAT-05-2013-0022

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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 language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1108/DAT-05-2013-0022
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	EWODOR European Working Group on Drugs Oriented Research 15th International Symposium - Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Duration: 22 May 2014 → 23 May 2014

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Conference	EWODOR European Working Group on Drugs Oriented Research 15th International Symposium
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	22/05/14 → 23/05/14

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drugs research
Psychological Theory
Sociology of the body
addictive behaviour

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Time to look beyond ageing as a factor? Alternative explanations for the continuing rise in drug related deaths in Scotland

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