Making a difference? Applying Vitellone ’s Social Science of the Syringe to performance and image enhancing drug injecting

Vitellone ’s Social Science of the Syringe investigates epistemologies of injecting drug use. She argues for a methodology that can be simultaneously sensitive to biopolitical power regimes; the trajectories of social stratification; and the resistance, creativity and dignity of human agency. She proposes a methodological focus on the syringe-in-use as an active participant in these dynamics. Harm reduction policy and service provision frameworks have paid little attention to the phenomena of performance and image enhancing drug (PIEDs) injection.

Source: International Journal of Drug Policy - April 18, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Aaron Hart Tags: Commentary Source Type: research