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De-Medicalizing Addiction: Toward Biocultural Understandings, Kerwin A. Kaye
De-Medicalizing Addiction: Toward Biocultural Understandings, Kerwin A. Kaye
Kerwin Kaye
This chapter critically examines efforts to destigmatize addiction through the creation of a diagnostic category and medicalization. It further critiques ‘‘realist’’ accounts of neuro-scientific knowledge, proposing instead a ‘‘biocultural’’ framework that enables a more multifaceted understanding of drug problems that leads back to questions of biopolitics.