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Substances, Welfare, and Social Relations
Breaking Stigma, Pursuing Hope
Amber Gazso (Author)
9781487546779
Hardback, published 17 November 2023
304 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 2.9 cm, 0.56 kg
Substances, Welfare, and Social Relations uses intimate, complex portraits to tell the stories of people who have lived some part of their life course while using or recovering from using substances (such as alcohol or illicit or prescription drugs) and also being part of a family and experiencing poverties. Through these multifaceted stories, layered with a critical analysis of welfare policy, the book probes the deeply entrenched stigma of living with addiction and in low income. Amber Gazso’s work revolves around the three-principles idea that (1) addiction is part of everyday life; (2) if we believe that people are not their addictions, then stigmatizing addiction has no place in society; and (3) destigmatizing addiction and providing better, more imaginative programs and services invites and supports actionable hope. Reflecting on qualitative data, both narrative interviews and policy discourse, Substances, Welfare, and Social Relations illuminates how stigmas can be overturned through a collective praxis of hope.
Acknowledgments Part III: Destigmatization, Hope, and Potential for Change Index
1. Introduction
Part I: Contextualizing and Embedding Experience
2. Situating the Study of Substances, Welfare, and Social Relations
3. Knowing Addiction
Part II: Lives as Lived
4. Becoming a Substance User
5. Being an Object of Welfare
6. Being a User, Sober, or in Recovery on Welfare
7. Being Part of Families and Social Support Relationships
8. Beginning Anew, and Recovery
9. Supporting Substance Users on Welfare: Of Hope among Us