Putting at risk what we know: Reflecting on the drug-using subject in harm reduction and its political implications

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Putting at risk what we know: Reflecting on the drug-using subject in harm reduction and its political implications

This paper provides a poststructuralist analysis of the cultural inscription of drug-using subjects in the neo-liberal discourses of contemporary harm reduction. We argue that although neo-liberal discourses downplay material constraints on individual human agency, divert policy and practice away fr...

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Main Authors:	Moore, David, Fraser, S.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	ELSEVIER 2006
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18682

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