ABSTRACT
The book concludes the Chinese stories of drug addiction. It is important to appreciate the wider notions of morality, gender, familial responsibility, civic duty, stigma and rehabilitative therapeutic reasoning that are in play in a geographical community. The Chinese stories of drug addiction construct it as an exemplar of immorality. The Chinese stories of drug addiction can overcome cultural stigma to some extent and palliate the male drug addict through his displays of heteronormative fraternity, family-centeredness, everydayness, business acumen and masculine righteousness from before, during and after drug addiction. Gibson, Acquah and Robinson describe recovery from drug addiction as a process which espouses the ‘morality of the everyday body’. The Chinese stories of drug addiction, like their Western counterparts, construct drug addiction as abnormal, bad, imprisoning, phoney and dirty. The aetiology of drug addiction that is alluded to in the Chinese stories may be of particular interest to clinicians who work with Chinese drug addicts.
