Pharmaceutical Creep: U.S. Military Power and the Global and Transnational Mobility of Psychopharmaceuticals
Pharmaceutical Creep: U.S. Military Power and the Global and Transnational Mobility of Psychopharmaceuticals
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制药业的蔓延：美国军事力量与精神药物的全球和跨国流动
DOI：
10.1111/maq.12520
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Lim Chua, Jocelyn
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作者：
Lim Chua, Jocelyn
2006年，美国国防部首次制定了“战区”精神药物使用的官方标准，即在军事行动（包括主动战斗）的物理和战术空间中使用精神药物。本文基于对陆军士兵和退伍军人的实地调查，探讨了 9/11 战争后军事精神药物使用的跨国和全球层面。我考虑了我所说的“药物蠕变”的空间、物质和象征维度——精神药物从民用世界缓慢转移到战区和军事团体。虽然美国军方将药品蠕变视为把关和供应问题，但一旦进入战区，药物就可以作为招募和绩效问题的解决方案。根据士兵对药物使用的描述，我阐明了当常规精神药物被改造成全球反叛乱技术时出现的可能性，但也出现了摩擦。
In 2006, the United States Department of Defense developed for the first time official criteria for the use of psychopharmaceuticals “in theater”—in the physical and tactical spaces of military operations including active combat. Based on fieldwork with Army soldiers and veterans, this article explores the transnational and global dimensions of military psychopharmaceutical use in the post‐9/11 wars. I consider the spatial, material, and symbolic dimensions of what I call “pharmaceutical creep”—the slow drift of psychopharmaceuticals from the civilian world into theater and into the military corporate body. While pharmaceutical creep is managed by the U.S. military as a problem of gatekeeping and of supply and provisioning, medications can appear as the solution to recruitment and performance problems once in theater. Drawing on soldiers’ accounts of medication use, I illuminate the possibilities, but also the frictions, that arise when routine psychopharmaceuticals are remade into technologies of global counterinsurgency.