Needle fixation, the drug user's perspective: a qualitative study

McBride, Andrew; Pates, Richard; Arnold, Karin; Ball, Nicola

doi:10.1046/j.1360-0443.2001.967104914.x

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“…Here then the rush concerns the practice of injecting heroin and the object of the syringe-in-use. This embodiment of the rush therefore questions the recent conclusions of Pates et al (2001) and McBride et al (2001), particularly their argument that the syringe serves primary and secondary functions. Although anecdotal evidence and personal opinion are considered by Pates et al (2001:14) to lack empirical weight, the comments from my male respondents nonetheless question their claim that conditioning provides the most plausible explanation for understanding the phenomenon of needle fixation:…”

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The Rush: Needle Fixation or Technical Materialization?

Vitellone¹

2003

Journal for Cultural Research

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confidence: 75%

The Rush: Needle Fixation or Technical Materialization?

Vitellone¹

2003

Journal for Cultural Research

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“…Some definitions cited by participants are similar to those offered by Pates et al (2001) and McBride et al (2001). However, there are also many instances in which our participants use the term to describe behaviours that do not fit the definition of repetitive, compulsive and continual injecting behaviour .…”

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Needle fictions: medical constructions of needle fixation and the injecting drug user

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Hopwood²,

Treloar³

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Addiction Research & Theory

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The term ''needle fixation'' is increasingly used by researchers and health professionals to explain a range of drug injecting attitudes and practices. This article employs an innovative discourse analysis approach to consider this notion of needle fixation. Foucault's theories of power, knowledge and discourse are taken up in examining a recent literature review of material considered to support the idea of needle fixation, and in conducting a secondary analysis of transcripts of interviews with people who inject methadone. Some correspondence in definitions of needle fixation was found between the literature and the interview subjects, but significant differences, both within and between literature and interviews were also observed. We argue that needle fixation can be understood as a product of discourse, and as such, as both fact and fiction. Considering that the term encompasses very different behaviours, is in some ways limiting, and has negative connotations, careful consideration should be given to it before it is accepted as a useful diagnostic and therapeutic tool.

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“…14 Certains auteurs comparent, notamment mais pas seulement pour cette raison, la pratique de l'injection avec la sexualité (McBride et al, 2001 ;Howard et Borges, 1971). …”

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Lauzon

2003

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Résumé Au Canada, depuis la fin des années 1990, la mise en place de lieux d’injection de drogues illicites (LIDI) est réclamée par des acteurs variés pour différents motifs, les principaux étant d’ordre sociosanitaire. Alors que les LIDI constituent une stratégie de réduction des méfaits qui suscite un attrait certain pour le politique, les consommateurs sont largement absents des débats entourant leur instauration éventuelle, du moins dans le cas de Montréal. C’est ce cas auquel les auteurs se consacrent dans cet article. Certes, on consulte les consommateurs au moyen de questionnaires, mais ces pratiques sont interrogatives et étrangères à une démarche compréhensive. Nous présentons ici une recherche qualitative inductive sur ce que signifie pour des consommateurs marginalisés la disponibilité éventuelle de LIDI à Montréal. La recherche permet également de connaître le type de ressources qu’ils souhaiteraient, le cas échéant, voir mises en place. Les discours des consommateurs conduisent à identifier leurs conditions de vie, la marginalisation et le contrôle social qu’ils subissent en raison du statut socio-juridique des substances qu’ils consomment comme les principales cibles que devraient prendre les services mis en place pour rendre possible l’amélioration de leur bien-être. On observe ainsi une disjonction importante entre, d’une part, le sens que revêt pour les consommateurs la mise en place éventuelle de LIDI à Montréal et, d’autre part, les principes de légitimation utilisés par les acteurs réclamant l’instauration de tels lieux.

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Needle fixation, the drug user's perspective: a qualitative study

Abstract: Issues conveniently considered together as needle fixation are current among injecting drug users and may be relevant to the inability of some drug users to change from injecting drug use.

Cited by 51 publications

References 11 publications

The Rush: Needle Fixation or Technical Materialization?

The Rush: Needle Fixation or Technical Materialization?

Needle fictions: medical constructions of needle fixation and the injecting drug user

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