In/dignity

“Nothing about us, without us”: Negotiating the personal and professional as activists and academics who use drugs

“…Not only does Frank render the physical anguish of withdrawal palpable, he illustrates how suffering is compounded when practitioners call us unreliable narrators (see also Russell, 2021). The dismissal of intimate knowledge by those tasked with alleviating bodily and psychic distress is a common violence visited on people who use drugs.…”