Using drugs to enhance capacities for action in everyday life practices: Analysing addiction stories’ descriptions of the escalation of substance use as counter-narratives

Jukka Törrönen, Ulrika Winerdal and Malin Gunnarsson

Social Science & Medicine, 2025, vol. 380, issue C

Abstract: The article demonstrates how substance use can enhance capacities for action in various everyday practices and function as a productive force rather than simply a risky and harmful activity.

Keywords: Life story interview material on heavy drug use; Drug use as a productive force; Enhancing capacities; Counter-narrative; Actor-network theory; Mediator (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118245

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