Becoming with Care in Drug Treatment Services

Employing Deleuzo-Guattarian 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.

Lena Theodoropoulou is Lecturer in Public Health at the University of Liverpool.

Introduction: Reclaiming Recovery 1. Engagement with drug research through a feminist technoscientific lens 2. Thinking recovery with the Deleuzo-Guattarian assemblage 3. Methods as connection-building devices 4. Of other spaces: the birth of the heterotopia of recovery 5. Becoming a drug user - becoming a service-user 6. The Recovery Assemblage 7. Beyond the recovery assemblage Conclusion: Services Interrupted