Enacting multiple methamphetamines: The ontological politics of public discourse and consumer accounts of a drug and its effects
Enacting multiple methamphetamines: The ontological politics of public discourse and consumer accounts of a drug and its effects
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10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.03.003
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发表时间：
2013-05-01
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4.4
通讯作者：
Moore, David
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作者：
Dwyer, Robyn;Moore, David
过去十年来，在澳大利亚，甲基苯丙胺已被视为药物研究、政策和实践的一个重大问题。人们对其效力、其使用日益普遍以及与安非他明或其他药物相比可能产生更大程度和更严重形式的危害表示关注。在本文中，我们批判性地考察了甲基苯丙胺及其影响在澳大利亚公共话语中产生和再现的一些方式，特别关注甲基苯丙胺与精神病之间的联系。我们展示了公众话语如何将甲基苯丙胺作为一种前、稳定、单一和明确的对象，通常与精神病的严重心理“伤害”联系在一起。我们将甲基苯丙胺在公众话语中的颁布与甲基苯丙胺如何由该药物的消费者颁布进行对比。在他们的叙述中，消费者使用不同的甲基苯丙胺物品，并对这些物品与心理问题的关系以及这些问题的本体论性质（即与什么是真实的、什么是存在的有关）提供不同的解释。在检查公共话语和消费者账户时，我们挑战传统的本体论理解，即甲基苯丙胺是前的，单一的，稳定的和明确的，其心理影响是病理学的指示性。与最近对药物的批判性社会研究一致，我们借鉴了科学技术的社会研究，重点关注科学知识和物质实践的性能。我们认为，认识到甲基苯丙胺的本体论偶然性，从而认识到其多样性，为传统研究、政策和实践中对甲基苯丙胺及其心理影响的描述提供了一个关键的对照。(C) 2013 Elsevier B.V.版权所有
Over the last decade in Australia, methamphetamine has come to be seen as a significant issue for drug research, policy and practice. Concerns have been expressed over its potency, the increasing prevalence of its use and its potential for producing greater levels, and more severe forms, of harm compared to amphetamine or other drugs. In this article, we critically examine some of the ways in which methamphetamine and its effects are produced and reproduced within and through Australian public discourse, focusing in particular on the associations made between methamphetamine and psychosis. We show how public discourse enacts methamphetamine as an anterior, stable, singular and definite object routinely linked to the severe psychological 'harm' of psychosis. We contrast the enactment of methamphetamine within public discourse with how methamphetamine is enacted by consumers of the drug. In their accounts, consumers perform different methamphetamine objects and offer different interpretations of the relationships of these objects to psychological problems and of the ontological nature (i.e. relating to what is real, what is, what exists) of these problems. In examining public discourse and consumer accounts, we challenge conventional ontological understandings of methamphetamine as anterior, singular, stable and definite, and of its psychological effects as indicative of pathology. In line with recent critical social research on drugs, we draw on social studies of science and technology that focus on the performativity of scientific knowledge and material practices. We suggest that recognising the ontological contingency, and therefore the multiplicity, of methamphetamine offers a critical counterpoint to conventional research, policy and practice accounts of methamphetamine and its psychological effects. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.