Drug Addiction [<i>Abridged</i>]

Connell, P. H.

doi:10.1177/003591576806100228

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“…Moreover, the “whole enhancement” of one's body and senses increased anxiety. After being awake for multiple nights they felt “wired”, “on edge” or “frayed.” For some, methamphetamine “heightened” their “drug-induced” anxiety, while others suffered “horrible anxiety” and were “anxious all the time.” As is common for frequent methamphetamine users (Connell, 1968; McKetin, 2018; Sommers et al 2006), most experienced paranoid thinking. In a “heightened state of consciousness” they believed family members “were all against” them or they were being “watched” by police.…”

Section: The Use-crash-rebound Cyclementioning

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Out the Gate: Towards a Rhizomatic Understanding of Methamphetamine Use in Aotearoa-New Zealand

Bax

2023

Contemporary Drug Problems

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As part of an interview-based qualitative study on the life-course of people who formally used methamphetamine in Aotearoa-New Zealand, this paper uses Deleuze and Guattari's rhizomatic perspective to trace the specific effects and particular relations involved in methamphetamine use. The methamphetamine-using trajectory for the 42 former users is a multifaceted and constantly fluctuating process involving multiple entries, exists, pathways, and restarts. By amplifying and enlightening the user, methamphetamine use begins by liberating desire through sending the user “out the gate,” but long-term high-dose use can end up constraining and repressing subjectivity and cyclically producing adverse psychological, emotional, interpersonal, and social effects. As a metamorphic process that produces transformative change, long-term high-dose methamphetamine use is a nonlinear rollercoaster ride that typically leads to a downward spiral whereby life stagnates, shrinks, or regresses. By undermining productive and transformative connections, the life of the long-term high-dose methamphetamine user typically—but not inevitably—involves revolving instead of evolving. Against a linear and deterministic popular media-generated narrative about methamphetamine use, a rhizomatic perspective emphasizes the potential for transformation by focusing upon the situational and interactional processes involved in users who undergo complex and varied temporary changes. From Deleuze and Guattari's perspective, disentangling from long-term high-dose methamphetamine use requires activating new relationships and possibilities for desire by forming meaningful biopsychosocial connections.

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Section: The Use-crash-rebound Cyclementioning

confidence: 99%

Out the Gate: Towards a Rhizomatic Understanding of Methamphetamine Use in Aotearoa-New Zealand

Bax

2023

Contemporary Drug Problems

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“…Usually they were referred by courts or probation officers or attended because of the concern of their parents on account of staying out all night, keeping company with a "bad lot," irritability, or aggression or after some complication of drug misuse. Their management was conducted along the lines suggested by Connell (1968a) and seven attended more than twice. None received their drug of misuse, nor were any offered admission to hospital.…”

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“…Such schizophrenic symptoms are known to be exacerbated by these drugs (Connell, 1958). TREATMENT Treatment of amphetamine users followed the lines previously recommended (Connell, 1966(Connell, , 1968a. Except in rare instances amphetamines were not prescribed, because of their widespread illicit availability and the danger of toxic effects if the prescribed dose was to be supplemented by illicit use.…”

Section: Amphetamine Psychosismentioning

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Amphetamine and Other Non-opioid Drug Users Attending a Special Drug Dependence Clinic

Gardner¹,

Connell²

1972

BMJ

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“…The psychoses produced are indistinguishable from paranoid schizophrenia. Connell (1968b) comments that it is very rare for withdrawal from amphetamines to be successfully accomplished during out-patient care, whereas withdrawal in hospital is not usually difficult. This is due to the fact that amphetamine dependence is psychological and not physical.…”

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Drug Dependence and Pregnancy: A Review of the Problems and Their Management

Neuberg

1970

BJOG

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The effect of drug-dependence on pregnant women and their newborn infants is described and the management of these patients is discussed.WITH the widespread indiscriminate use of stimulant, sedative and hallucinogenic drugs, the number of young women who are becoming physically or psychologically dependent upon drugs in Great Britain is increasing rapidly each year. It is therefore likely that the obstetrician will sometimes be confronted with the problem of the management of such a woman, whose life has become further complicated by pregnancy.

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Drug Addiction [Abridged]

Cited by 8 publications

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Out the Gate: Towards a Rhizomatic Understanding of Methamphetamine Use in Aotearoa-New Zealand

Out the Gate: Towards a Rhizomatic Understanding of Methamphetamine Use in Aotearoa-New Zealand

Amphetamine and Other Non-opioid Drug Users Attending a Special Drug Dependence Clinic

Drug Dependence and Pregnancy: A Review of the Problems and Their Management

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