Substances, Welfare, and Social Relations
Breaking Stigma, Pursuing Hope
Seiten
2023
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4753-0 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4753-0 (ISBN)
Through rich and poignant stories and critical analysis of policy, this book sheds light on what it is like, and how it feels, to manage substance use while simultaneously on welfare.
Substances, Welfare, and Social Relations uses intimate, complex portraits to tell the stories of people who have lived some part of their life course while using or recovering from using substances (such as alcohol or illicit or prescription drugs) and also being part of a family and experiencing poverties.
Through these multifaceted stories, layered with a critical analysis of welfare policy, the book probes the deeply entrenched stigma of living with addiction and in low income. Amber Gazso’s work revolves around the three-principles idea that (1) addiction is part of everyday life; (2) if we believe that people are not their addictions, then stigmatizing addiction has no place in society; and (3) destigmatizing addiction and providing better, more imaginative programs and services invites and supports actionable hope. Reflecting on qualitative data, both narrative interviews and policy discourse, Substances, Welfare, and Social Relations illuminates how stigmas can be overturned through a collective praxis of hope.
Substances, Welfare, and Social Relations uses intimate, complex portraits to tell the stories of people who have lived some part of their life course while using or recovering from using substances (such as alcohol or illicit or prescription drugs) and also being part of a family and experiencing poverties.
Through these multifaceted stories, layered with a critical analysis of welfare policy, the book probes the deeply entrenched stigma of living with addiction and in low income. Amber Gazso’s work revolves around the three-principles idea that (1) addiction is part of everyday life; (2) if we believe that people are not their addictions, then stigmatizing addiction has no place in society; and (3) destigmatizing addiction and providing better, more imaginative programs and services invites and supports actionable hope. Reflecting on qualitative data, both narrative interviews and policy discourse, Substances, Welfare, and Social Relations illuminates how stigmas can be overturned through a collective praxis of hope.
Amber Gazso is an associate professor of sociology at York University.
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Part I: Contextualizing and Embedding Experience
2. Situating the Study of Substances, Welfare, and Social Relations
3. Knowing Addiction
Part II: Lives as Lived
4. Becoming a Substance User
5. Being an Object of Welfare
6. Being a User, Sober, or in Recovery on Welfare
7. Being Part of Families and Social Support Relationships
8. Beginning Anew, and Recovery
Part III: Destigmatization, Hope, and Potential for Change
9. Supporting Substance Users on Welfare: Of Hope among Us
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.12.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 420 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-4753-6 / 1487547536 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-4753-0 / 9781487547530 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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