"The discourse of disease may have potentially 
progressive effects insofar as it has helped
trigger a shift of gaze in which drug use comes 
to be seen as properly belonging in the realm
of public health rather than criminal law. But 
addiction-as-disease has just as often been
a discursive weapon wielded by a state that has 
declared war upon citizens who ingest
disapproved substances. It is a weapon that helps 
to justify – ‘‘for their own good’’ – the
suspension of the Bill of Rights under what the 
Supreme Court openly calls ‘‘the drug
exception’’ and the mass incarceration of the powerless."

<http://sociology.ucsc.edu/directory/reinarman/addiction.pdf>http://sociology.ucsc.edu/directory/reinarman/addiction.pdf 





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