Explanations and expectations: drug narratives among young cannabis users in treatment

Sociology of Health and Illness - Tập 37 Số 6 - Trang 870-887 - 2015
Margaretha Järvinen1, Signe Ravn2
1Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen and SFI -The Danish National Centre for Social Research, Copenhagen, Denmark
2SFI -The Danish National Centre for Social Research, Copenhagen, Denmark

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AbstractThis article analyses how young people enrolled in drug addiction treatment in Copenhagen, Denmark, explain their cannabis careers and how they view their possibilities for quitting drug use again. Inspired by Mead and narrative studies of health and illness, the article identifies four different drug use ‘aetiologies’ drawn upon by the interviewees. These cover childhood experiences, self‐medication, the influence of friends and cannabis use as a specific lifestyle. A central argument of the article is that these explanations not only concern the past but also point towards the future by assigning the interviewee a more or less agential position in relation to drugs. Further, the drug narratives are viewed as interactional achievements, related to the social context in which they were produced, namely, the institutional setting of the treatment centres. The article is based on 30 qualitative interviews with young people in drug addiction treatment.

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Sociology of Health and Illness

Tập 37 Số 6

870-887

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