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'Drugs, Identity and Stigma'
Editors: Dr Michelle Addison, Dr William McGovern, Dr Ruth McGovern

This distinctive edited collection brings together new interdisciplinary analyses of the painful impacts of stigma and stigmatizing processes attached to people who use (or have used) illicit substances, through an exploration of inequalities, power and sensations of feeling out of place in neoliberal times.

The focus here is on how stigma is experienced, negotiated and differently impacts on people who use diverse substances and are located in disparate and unequal social backgrounds. As editors we are centrally concerned with the complexity of how stigma and illicit substance use links to crime, recovery, health, and persistent inequalities (Room, 2005, Hatzenbuehler, 2013, Ahern, 2006, Scambler, 2015, Scambler, 2018, Chang, 2016, Pemberton, 2016, Shildrick 2018).

This edited collection will address the current gap in knowledge, theory and understanding of how stigma and stigmatizing processes are recognised, inscribed and resisted in certain places and around certain people, as well as the various strategies that are deployed to cope with stigma and substance use. This collection is important because it critically addresses the damaging effects stigma can have on recovery, mental health, desistance from crime, and social inclusion, using original empirical datasets. The outcome of this collection is to further debates around an agenda for social justice in substance use policy and practice, to develop a vastly under-theorised area, and to provide important insights for readers into the subjective, everyday experiences of substance users.

Key Objectives:
 To understand everyday experiences of substance users around perceived social status, identity formation, stigma, shame, and valued personhood.
 To explore how stigma can get ‘under the skin’ and what this can tell us about health and social inequalities amongst people who use substances
 To understand how stigma is variously experienced by people who use substances from within the criminal justice system, social work, health organisations and services
 To identify how stigmatising processes persist in positioning substance users as certain ‘kinds of people’ and the limiting effect this can have on social mobility and identity formation
 To gain insight into how stigma and substance use impact on a person’s offending behaviour, physical and mental health, and their sense of inclusion in society

Please submit your 250 word abstract and title to Dr Michelle Addison, Northumbria University, for consideration by 
Friday 25th October, 2019

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