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Description of  Becoming with Care in Drug Treatment Services: The Recovery Assemblage (Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness)

Employing DeleuzoGuattarian orientations to assemblage and feminist approaches to care, this book offers a critique of neoliberal approaches to recovery from drugs and alcohol, while collapsing the dualities of harm reduction and recovery. This monograph empirically explores the practices of care emerging in two drug recovery services in Liverpool and Athens. Following the flows of the participants desires, it argues that it is not the lack of the substance that holds the recovery assemblage together, but the production of connections that enhance a bodys power of acting, constituting recovery a practice of collective care. The outcome of the analysis of the lived experiences of people in recovery is a call for the dismissal of policy as an intervention coming from outside, and its reconstitution as a practice produced inside the recovery assemblage. Read more