Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State by Stewart Williams Barney Warf

Author:Stewart Williams, Barney Warf [Stewart Williams, Barney Warf]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367218621
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

Colliding intervention in the spatial management of street-based injecting and drug-related litter within settings of public convenience (UK)

Stephen Parkin

Centre for Primary Care, Institute for Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

This paper considers the structural production and amplification of tensions surrounding the issue of street-based injecting drug use and drug-related litter (injecting paraphernalia) discarded in public settings. These tensions, it is argued, is a consequence of colliding intervention (policy and practice) brought about by conflicting connections between national/local drug strategy and micro-level forms of governance regarding the spatial management of public space. These colliding interventions have negative consequences upon harm reduction and the formation of enabling environments. The paper draws upon data obtained from a five-year (multi-site) ethnographic study of street-based injecting conducted throughout the south of England during 2006–2011.

Shopper finds needles in Taunton public toilets.1 (Somerset County Gazette, 27 December 2012)

Drug users arrested in Cambridge’s “health hazard” loos.2 (Cambridge News, 3 April 2013)

Ely’s public toilets “rife” with drug activity.3 (Ely Weekly News, 19 April 2013)

Council cleaner’s HIV-test wait after drug needle stab in Sunderland toilets.4 (Sunderland Echo, 30 July 2013)

Call for “drug haven” conveniences to be closed.5 (Hastings and St Leonard’s Observer, 14 December 2013)

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