Disciplining Addictions: The Bio-politics of Methadone and Heroin in the United States

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1 January 2000

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Published by Springer Nature in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry

Vol. 24 (2) , 165-195
https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1005574918294

Abstract

Biomedical understanding of methadone as a magic-bullet pharmacologicalblock to the euphoric effects of heroin is inconsistent with epidemiologicaland clinical data. An ethnographic perspective on...

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