A team of researchers led by SSAC’s Associate Professor Suzanne Fraser has been awarded $499,000 by the Australian Research Council to conduct research into lived experiences of addiction in Australia. This project, entitled ‘Experiences of addiction, treatment and recovery: An online resource for members of the public, health professionals and policy makers’, is the first…
SSAC research fellow Dr Kate Seear presented a paper at the Biopolitics of Science and Medicine Symposium, held on Friday November 29th 2013 at Monash University’s Caulfield Campus. Dr Seear presented findings from a new national pilot study (being undertaken in conjunction with Associate Professor Suzanne Fraser) that explores legal approaches to addiction, especially those…
People who experience ‘problematic’ substance use or ‘addiction’ feature prominently in the criminal justice system, typically as offenders. Importantly, however, ‘addicts’ and other ‘problematic’ consumers of alcohol and other drugs also appear in criminal justice systems in other guises, including as the victims of crime. All Australian states and territories operate legislative schemes designed to…
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