Substance and substitution : methadone subjects in liberal societies

Suzanne Fraser and Kylie Valentine
Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

ISBN: 9780230019980

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Book description
Located between three powerful phenomena: public health, the law and social stigma, methadone maintenance treatment attracts loyal advocates, vociferous critics and innumerable engaged onlookers. This book aims to examine the controversial approach to addiction, providing in the process a unique approach to the understanding of illicit drugs.

About the author
Dr Suzanne Fraser is Lecturer at the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Cosmetic Surgery, Gender and Culture.
Kylie Valentine is Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry and Modernist Literature.

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