Controlling Drug Users
Necessary for effective regulation & Responding with a client
What is Discretion
The long form of MMT
What is Methadone Maintenance Treatment
This term describes facilities where PWID (people who inject drugs) can go to inject drugs under medical supervision to reduce risk and harm
What are Supervised Injection Sites?
Controlling Drug users is this, delivered under the guise of healthcare
What is social control/class discipline?
A label given to MMT patients in active addiction
What is Dirty
Within SISs, PWID are subjected to these forms of supervision and behavioral regulation
What are surveillance and discipline practices
What is the regulatory Pyramid
The most common feeling among MMT clients while undergoing treatments
What is a loss of control
The authors suggest that SISs may contribute to this process, pushing marginalized populations to peripheral, ghettoised urban areas
What is socio-spatial exclusion of marginalized populations from urban centres