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A Discursive Analysis of Addicted Users’ Accounts of Opiate AddictionSinisi, Vincenzo 26 October 2006 (has links)
Faculty of Arts
School of Humanities
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enzo@hixnet.co.za / This research report undertook an original exploration into the workings of addiction.
The theoretical insights of discursive psychology were applied to the study of opiate
addiction and were used to analyse the manner in which using and non-using
informants were able to constitute addiction through discourse. By comparing the
discursive accounts of self-defined recovered, recovering and currently addicted
users, the report highlighted how ways of speaking about substances and their use
may be implicated in the maintenance and cessation of addiction.
The transcripts of four focus groups, consisting of a total number of 15 informants,
were qualitatively analysed using a thematic method that focused on the informants’
strategic use of discourse. The analysis revealed important differences between using
and non-using informants in terms of the self employed discursive practices that they
used in constructing their experience of addiction. Differences included variations in
the attribution of agency to either the opiate or the informant and the degree to which
opiate use was presented as cause for concern or not. These and other differences
were explored in detail together with their potential implications, functions and
apparent effects on the users’ capacity to maintain abstinence as opposed to
continuing to use.
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VIETNAM VETERANS AND ILLICIT DRUG USERoberts, Joyce 01 June 2017 (has links)
This study examined the correlation between Vietnam veterans and dependency to illicit drugs, due to their exposure and accessibility during their deployment in Vietnam. This study consisted of a sample size of 58 respondents to a survey that was disbursed throughout 2 agencies that comprise of Vietnam veterans.The survey design was implemented to ensure the consistency and accuracy of the quantitative data. Furthermore, this study included a Chi-square test to determine relevance and implications to micro social work practices. As expected, there was a positively significant statistical relationship between the exposure and accessibility that some Vietnam veterans experienced during their deployment that continues to affect their current use of illicit drugs. This study has been conducted to help future micro practitioners understand the importance and effects that this exposure and accessibility played in the lives of many Vietnam veterans.
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