Social Value of Drug Addicts: Uses of the Useless
Drug users are typically portrayed as worthless slackers, burdens on
society, and just plain useless—culturally, morally, and economically.
By contrast, this book argues that the social construction of some
people as useless is in fact extremely useful to other people.
Leading
medical anthropologists Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page analyze media
representations, drug policy, and underlying social structures to show
what industries and social sectors benefit from the criminalization,
demonization, and even popular glamorization of addicts. Synthesizing a
broad range of key literature and advancing innovative arguments about
the social construction of drug users and their role in contemporary
society, this book is an important contribution to public health,
medical anthropology, popular culture, and related fields.
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