Becoming with Care in Drug Treatment Services: The Recovery Assemblage

This book offers a critique of neoliberal approaches to recovery from drugs and alcohol, arguing that it is not the lack of substance that holds the recovery assemblage together, but the production of connections that enhance a body's power of acting. It calls for the dismissal of policy as an intervention from outside and its reconstitution as a practice produced inside the recovery assemblage.

Format: Hardback
Length: 204 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book offers a critical analysis of neoliberal approaches to drug and alcohol recovery, challenging the dualities of harm reduction and recovery. Employing Deleuzo-Guattarian orientations to assemblage and feminist approaches to care, it explores the practices of care emerging in two drug recovery services in Liverpool and Athens. By following the flows of participants' desires, the book argues that it is not the lack of substance that holds the recovery assemblage together, but the production of connections that enhance a body's power of acting. This constitutes recovery as a practice of collective care. The analysis of the lived experiences of people in recovery calls for the dismissal of policy as an intervention coming from outside and its reconstitution as a practice produced inside the recovery assemblage.

Focusing on the value of the assemblage as a methodological, ontological, and epistemological orientation for critical drug studies, this volume contributes to the sociology of health and illness and appeals to students and researchers interested in fields such as Deleuzian Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology and Social Policy, Drugs and Addiction, Public Health, and Medical Anthropology.

Weight: 560g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367760168