Medicalized addiction, self-medication, or nonmedical prescription drug use? How trust figures into incarcerated women's conceptualization of illicit prescription drug use

Smirnova, Michelle; Owens, Jennifer Gatewood

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.04.047

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“…Whereas, others might visit their doctor with expectations of a medical intervention and lesser symptoms (Bell, 1987). Given concerns of the medicalisation of ‘normal’ life events and increasing mistrust of medical experts (Smirnova and Owens, 2017), many women take no action to manage their symptoms or adopt self-help strategies (Lyons and Griffin, 2003). The implications of these differing frames and discourses can be significant and include: (1) the worried well; (2) the woman who puts up with ‘natural’ but debilitating symptoms; or (3) the woman who attributes symptoms to her menopause and fails to seek medical advice when the cause is elsewhere (Nosek et al, 2012).…”

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Managing the Menopause through ‘Abjection Work’: When Boobs Can Become Embarrassingly Useful, Again

Butler

2019

Work, Employment and Society

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This article examines how power and menopause relate at work. Based on qualitative data from 23 women administrative workers, the research finds that menopausal symptoms are sometimes ‘awful’, ‘knackering’ and ‘isolating’. Yet, as ‘real’ or ‘normal women’, they described getting lost in the menopause discourse and many spoke of going through ‘the change’ instead; this saw them make sense of, and respond to, their symptoms in (sometimes) unconventional ways. In addition, when a menopausal body runs rampant, its abject appearance can cause embarrassment, but not just for the woman – for anyone who witnesses it. For some women, they simply go and stand outside. For others, the realisation of the vicarious nature of embarrassment sees them employ their menopausal bodies and do ‘abjection work’. This work acts as a powerful form of management; yet some might argue that it is improper.

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Managing the Menopause through ‘Abjection Work’: When Boobs Can Become Embarrassingly Useful, Again

Butler

2019

Work, Employment and Society

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“…The pharmaceutical forces towards medical treatments discussed above, together with a criminal justice setting that encourages diagnostic access, must here be critically reflected upon via a perspective of individual resistance to dominant narratives. In support of previous studies with incarcerated women and the use of prescription drugs (Smirnova and Owens 2017), not only does the woman need to trust the medical professionals, but she must also be able to trust herself to use them in an appropriate manner.…”

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Critical Reflections on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the Criminal Justice System: Swedish Female Ex‐Offenders’ Narratives of Diagnosis

Österman

2018

Howard J Crime Justice

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Recent years have seen an emerging link between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and criminal behaviour. Sweden is a leader in this field of research, and high levels of ADHD are reported in the Swedish criminal justice system. The aetiology of the condition, however, remains unclear and there is definite ambivalence in the literature regarding both diagnosis and treatments. Offering a unique qualitative perspective on the role of ADHD diagnoses, this article critically explores female first‐hand narratives of ADHD in the Swedish criminal justice system. A number of diagnostic functions are proposed; (i) on the individual level – via a rationalised explanatory framework of behaviour; (ii) on a societal level – with attention effectively being deflected from social and environmental contexts; (iii) on an institutional level – linked to the medicalised management of offender populations, and lastly; (iv) on a broader market level – including huge pharmaceutical interests in a relentlessly expanding ‘treatment’ market.

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“…Purposive sampling for variation of selected characteristics or for information-rich cases was most commonly achieved through the assistance of prison staff and health-care providers. Another strategy allowing sampling for variation was to undertake an initial survey and subsequently determine who to invite to the qualitative study (Smirnova & Owens, 2017; Wainwright, McDonnell, Lennox, Shaw, & Senior, 2017). Purposive sampling also occurred at the level of the prison or prison unit, such as through choosing prisons or units with different security classifications or purposes.…”

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“…Decreasing staff awareness of the research could also be achieved through minimizing custodial escorts to research-related interactions (Copes, Hochstetler, & Brown, 2013).Some articles detailed the custodial involvement with research interactions. Custodial involvement included officer escort to the interview (Einat & Rabinovitz, 2013), unspecified guard supervision (Magee, Hult, Turalba, & McMillan, 2005;Weldon & Gilchrist, 2012), video surveillance (Harner & Riley, 2013;Lee, Fu, & Fleming, 2006;Supiano, Cloyes, & Berry, 2014;Yap et al, 2014), monitoring through windows (Smirnova & Owens, 2017), and an officer outside the closed room (A. N. Chambers, 2009;Dinkel & Schmidt, 2014) or out of earshot (Condon et al, 2007;Copes et al, 2013;Moe & Ferraro, 2006;Todrys & Amon, 2011 Supiano et al, 2014). Some authors did not provide details but acknowledged the setting was semiprivate (Harawa, Sweat, George, & Sylla, 2010;Harner, Wyant, & Da Silva, 2017).…”

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“…;Howerton et al (2007);Plugge, Douglas, and Fitzpatrick (2008);Shen (2016); andSmirnova and Owens (2017) Health database or records 8Chambers (2009);Hassan, Edge, Senior, and Shaw (2013);Khaw, Stobbart, and Murtagh (2007);Newman, Cashin, and Waters (2015); andTopp et al (2016) Program participation 19 Boothby (2011);Bourke et al (2012);Carlin (2005);Drapeau, Korner, Granger, and Brunet (2005); and Mahoney, Chouliara, and Karatzias (2015) Linked research, researcher contacts 11Alves, Maia, and Teixeira (2016); Copes et al (2013); Haley et al (2014); Harawa, Sweat, George, and Sylla (2010); Loeb and Steffensmeier (2011); Plugge et al (2008); Treloar, McCredie, and Lloyd (2015); and Wainwright et al (2017) Resident in certain prison section/unit 6 Bennett (2014); de Viggiani (2007); Gilham (2012); Harner and Riley (2013); Kenning et al (2010); and Ralphs, Williams, Askew, and Norton (2017) Response to flyers and posters 21 Blagden, Winder, and Hames (2014); Cobb and Farrants (2014); Condon et al (2007); Dinkel and Schmidt (2014); Easterling and Feldmeyer (2017); Enders, Paterniti, and Meyers (2005); Harner, Hentz, and Evangelista (2011); Oliver and Hairston (2008); and Pritchard et al (2014) Health-care provider 20 Baker, Wright, and Hansen (2013); Carlson, Sexton, Hammar, and Reese (2011); Feron, Tan, Pestiaux, and Lorant (2008); Guin (2009); Hassan et al (2013); Mangnall and Yurkovich (2010); Soffer and Ajzenstadt (2010); and Yap et al (2014) Prison staff 10 Hefler, Hopkins, and Thomas (2016); Pinheiro, de Araujo, de Vasconcelos, and do Nascimento (2015); Ralphs et al (2017); Todrys and Amon (2011); and Weldon and Gilchrist (2012) Prison manager/administration 3 de Guzman, Imperial, Javier, and Kawasaki (2017); Loeb et al (2013)(2014); DeHart (2008); Earle (2011); Einat (2009); Fogel et al (2014); Rahmah, Blogg, Silitonga, Aman, and Power (2014); Smirnova and Owens (2017); and Topp et al (2016) Attendees at nonaffiliated meeting/event 3 Hefler et al (2016); Schonberg, Bennett, Sufrin, Karasz, and Gold (2015); and Woodall et al , & Zamith-Cruz (2011); Carlson et al (2011); Easterling and Feldmeyer (2017); Haley et al (2014); Hatton et al (2006); Machado and Silva (2012); Mercer et al (2015); Schonberg et al (2015); Soffer and Ajzenstadt (2010); and Weldon and Gilchrist (2012) All participants in a program 9 Akerman and Geraghty (2016); Billington, Longden, and Robinson (2016); Boothby (2011); Drapeau et al (2005); Mahoney et al (2015); Miller, Tillyer, and Miller (2012); O'Grady, Rolvsjord, and McFerran (2015); and Walton and Duff (2017) Purposive for selected characteristic(s) 15 Baker et al (2013); Borrill, Snow, Medlicott, Teers, and Paton (2005); de Guzman et al (2017); Fogel et al (2014); Garrett (2010); Howerton et al (2007); Kennedy (2014); Marzano, Ciclitira, and Adler (2012); Newman et al (2015); Ralphs et al (2017); Schneider and Feltey (2009); and Sondhi et al (2016) Purposive for variation of characteristics or views 20 Alves et al (2016); Andrinopoulos et al (2011); Bowen e...…”

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A Scoping Review of Qualitative Research Methods Used With People in Prison

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Magin

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International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Researchers undertaking qualitative interview and focus group research with people in prison must consider the research methods they use, given the ethical and practical complexities of prison-based research. In particular, there are explicit and implicit coercion risks and barriers to access, privacy, and confidentiality. To examine how the challenges of conducting rigorous qualitative research with prisoners were handled, we undertook a scoping review of recruitment and data collection processes reported in qualitative research with prisoners. We searched for peer-reviewed articles of qualitative interview and focus group research with adult prisoners, published in the English language from 2005 to 2017, using MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, and CINAHL databases. There were 142 articles reporting on 126 studies which met the review inclusion criteria. Challenges related to coercion risk, participant recruitment, sampling, confidentiality, privacy, and working with prison-based intermediaries should be explicitly addressed and reported. Our findings highlight key considerations and contextualized strategies for recruitment and data collection for researchers who seek to conduct rigorous and ethical qualitative research with prisoners.

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Medicalized addiction, self-medication, or nonmedical prescription drug use? How trust figures into incarcerated women's conceptualization of illicit prescription drug use

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References 32 publications

Managing the Menopause through ‘Abjection Work’: When Boobs Can Become Embarrassingly Useful, Again

Managing the Menopause through ‘Abjection Work’: When Boobs Can Become Embarrassingly Useful, Again

Critical Reflections on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the Criminal Justice System: Swedish Female Ex‐Offenders’ Narratives of Diagnosis

A Scoping Review of Qualitative Research Methods Used With People in Prison

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