“Without Drug Court, You’ll End Up in Prison or Dead”: Therapeutic Surveillance and Addiction Narratives in Treatment Court

Revier, Kevin

doi:10.1007/s10612-021-09592-y

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“…The control of disabled individuals within the CJS can occur both before and during the incarceration period, such as in drug courts. Drug courts work with the participation of a person receiving treatment and working with treatment specialists (Revier, 2021). The drug court assumes responsibility for the drug user, including attorneys and treatment providers.…”

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“…Because of this incentive, individuals may only partake in the program to avoid prison, not necessarily to improve their lifestyle. An issue with coercion contributes to more involvement in the CJS and the net widening of the treatment courts (Revier, 2021). While the intention of drug courts is to treat addictions, it creates more space for government control.…”

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The Control and Coercion of Disabled Individuals

De Vera

2023

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Since early asylums, people with disabilities and psychiatric disorders were disproportionately institutionalized and coerced to harmful treatment. Today, the same people are disproportionately incarcerated, sharing similar values once held by asylums. Ableist and disablist practices must be accounted for to address the injustice faced by disabled people and people with psychiatric disorders. Using criminological frameworks, this paper studies the surveillance and loss of autonomy disabled people and people with psychiatric disorders face in favour of goverment power and control.

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The Control and Coercion of Disabled Individuals

De Vera

2023

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“… 7. I recall sitting in drug treatment court and watching people arrested for DWIs (Driving While Intoxicated) stand in front of the judge. Despite having driven over the legal limit numerous times in my life, I remained a “distant” observer, a strict symbolic and legal apparatus dividing us (Revier, 2021). …”

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Figuring Things Out: Contemplating Drug Addiction and Disclosure In and Out of the Field

Revier

2022

Contemporary Drug Problems

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From 2017 to 2019, I conducted fieldwork on the opioid crisis in upstate New York. As part of my research, I interviewed people who use/d opioids. Interviewees discussed their beginning use, escalating use, and, for many, eventual sobriety. Throughout research, I reflected on my own drug consumption and attempts at moderation and abstinence—mostly regarding my heavy use of alcohol. I tracked my reflections in a field diary, writing over 200 entries. Yet, like many ethnographers, I extracted the notes out of my final research write-up. In part, my lack of disclosure was perhaps due to my being in what James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente refer to as the contemplation stage of change: I was unsure how to identify myself as a person who uses/struggles with drugs and alcohol, and I was not ready to commit to long-term sobriety. Whether I disclosed or not, such contemplation did affect my fieldwork: it shaped my motivation to pursue drug research and advocacy; my relationships and interactions with participants; and ways I navigated harm reduction and sober support spaces. After over 2 years of being out of the field (and now in a state of long-term sobriety), I revisit my field diary through autoethnographic exploration. In doing so, I place contemplation within the growing conversation on reflexivity and disclosure in critical drug studies.

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