A new article by DruGS Program Lead Adrian Farrugia in collaboration with Mats Ekendahl (Stockholm University), Helen Keane (Australian National University) and Mary Lou Rasmussen (Australian National University) explores young people’s articulations of alcohol and other drugs and intoxication as part of everyday life. This article responds to a research dynamic in which much sociological…
A new article by DruGS team members Gemma Nourse, David Moore and Suzanne Fraser examines discourses on performance and image-enhancing drugs (PIEDs) in Australia. The article has been developed from Gemma’s PhD thesis, supervised by Suzanne and David, which examined what it means to be a man who consumes PIEDs, a practice commonly pathologised in…
In September, DruGS team members travelled to Paris, France, to take part in the Contemporary Drug Problems conference. Co-convened by the journal’s co-editors Associate Professor Kate Seear and Professor kylie valentine along with the conference organising committee, this year’s conference theme was ‘Embracing trouble: New ways of doing, being and knowing’. The theme aimed to…
A new article, led by DruGS program member Adrian Farrugia, reports findings from a national Australian Research Council-funded project on experiences of hepatitis C, treatment and cure since the advent of direct-acting antiviral treatment. The article, entitled ‘Hepatitis C cure as a “gathering”: Attending to the social and material relations of hepatitis C treatment’, analyses…
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