“I am not a drug abuser, I am a drug user”: A discourse analysis of 44 drug users’ construction of identity

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A narrative approach to studying symbolic boundaries among drug users: A qualitative meta-synthesis (2016, background): “…who engage in stigmatized behaviors, drug users actively resist this stigma, at least as best as they can by distancing themselves from stereotypical addicts (i.e. crackheads, junkies, dope fiends, and tweakers) (Boeri, 2004; Copes et al., 2008; Draus et al., 2010; Rødner, 2005; Sandberg, 2012).”
Addiction as a complex social process: An action theoretical perspective (2008, background): “We have also seen that goal-directed processes have been identified, from several different paradigms, to play a key role in the complex dynamics of addiction (e.g., Cardinal and Everitt 2004; Cardinal et al. 2002; Dickinson and Balleine 2000; Rødner 2005).”
Exploring the micro-politics of normalisation: Narratives of pleasure, self-control and desire in a sample of young Australian ‘party drug’ users (2010, background): “…discursive environments in which existing views – for example, that ‘excessive’ drug use is the product of personal and/or social deficits – are replaced by alternative subject positions, such as the drug user who is both ‘excessive’ and competent, pleasure-seeking and rational (Rødner 2005)?”