Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM

Session 093: Problematizing the Medicalization of Addiction
Room: Hemon

Sponsors: Drinking and Drugs
Social Problems Theory

Organizer &

Presider: Joshua H. Stout, Illinois State University

Discussant: Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, University of Delaware

Description: 

This session explores the medicalization of addiction by examining the consequences of this framework on individuals and institutions.

Papers:

“Analyzing and Replacing the Moral-disease Model of Addiction,” Andrew R. Burns, Louisiana State University

“Challenging Biomedical Constructions of Risk among People Who Use Drugs,” David Frank, Luther Elliott and Alexander S. Bennett, New York University

“Recovery Denied: Bereaved Survivors’ Stories of Institutional Stigma and the Necrotherapeutic State in Drug Treatment,” Joshua H. Stout, Illinois State University, Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Timothy Chesnik, University of Delaware

“What are the Consequences of Medicalization? An Autoethnographic Account of Losing My Mom to Opioid Addiction,” Hope E. Ousey, Wilkes University

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