By Professor J. Bryan Page, Professor Merrill Singer
Comprehending Drug Use, the 1st full-length serious evaluate of using ethnographic tools in drug study, synthesizes a couple of hundred years of analysis at the human come upon with psychotropic medications. J. Bryan web page and Merrill Singer create a accomplished exam of the total box of drug ethnography-methodology that contains entry to the hidden global of drug clients, the social areas they common, and the bigger structural forces that aid build their worlds. They discover the real intersections of drug ethnography with globalization, criminalization, public future health (including the HIV/AIDS epidemic, hepatitis, and different diseases), and gender, and likewise offer a pragmatic consultant of the equipment and occupation paths of ethnographers. (20091120)
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That my pains had vanished, was now a trifle in my eyes; this negative effect was swallowed up in the immensity of those positive effects which had opened before me, in the abyss of divine enjoyment thus suddenly THE EMERGENCE OF DRUG ETHNOGRAPHY 33 revealed. Here was a panacea . . for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered; happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket; portable ecstasies might be had corked up in a pint bottle; and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach.
Dai helped to usher in the social deviance approach to drug studies. This understanding, suggested although never fully developed in Dai’s work, depicts the drug user as caught up in “an all-consuming life-style” (Waterston 1993, 13) or a total way of life (Bell 1971; Inciardi 1986). Some researchers have referred to the existence of a “deviance syndrome” among impoverished inner-city drug users (McGee and Newcomb 1992). For example, Gilles Bibeau asserted that regular intravenous drug use “quickly leads to a lifestyle often associated with social marginality, a lifestyle where risk-taking and danger play central roles” (1989).
Similarly, the label ‘addict’ in the United States typically conjures up a picture of a strung-out, dirty, furtive, lower-class street junkie—but does not readily bring to mind the millions of middle-class alcohol- and barbiturateaddicted housewives. Nor does it convey a mental picture of the thousands of clean-shaven, affluent, hardworking physicians, stethoscopes dangling from their necks, who are currently addicted to narcotics. (1980, 12–13) Consequently, later writers questioned the deviance model, arguing that it “leads to an exaggerated picture of [drug] users’ lives, as well as an overstatement of differences between users and nonusers.