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A Fine Line - Painkillers and Pleasure in the Age of Anxiety (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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A Fine Line - Painkillers and Pleasure in the Age of Anxiety (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Are painkillers mundane medications safe for use to ease human
suffering? Or are they drugs of abuse that cause addiction and
death? Do they ameliorate pain, or do they cause it? This book
explores growing interest among medical practitioners media outlets
about the 'misuse' or 'abuse' of pharmaceutical pain medications.
It contextualizes these emerging discourses of pharmaceutical
'abuse' within the social and political histories from which they
have emerged by exploring the role of pleasure and pain in shaping
individualized modes of medication consumption in a neoliberal age
of anxiety. The book is divided into two parts: the first addresses
the discursive construction of painkiller (ab)use as articulated in
research and policy accounts; the second part provides an empirical
investigation that draws on the lived experience of those who
engage in non-medical consumption. This book argues that, contrary
to the stereotype of the 'seductive' drug that coaxes its user into
a life of dysfunction, there appears to be an intimate relationship
between the motivations of pleasure seeking, health practice and
productive citizenship among people who use painkillers for
non-medical reasons.
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