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      Ethical practices

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      Ethical practices book

      On rules, values and ethics as a ‘matter of concern’

      Ethical practices

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      Ethical practices book

      On rules, values and ethics as a ‘matter of concern’
      ByKate Seear
      BookLaw, Drugs and the Making of Addiction

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 25
      eBook ISBN 9780429450792
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      ABSTRACT

      This chapter explores lawyers’ and decision makers’ reflections on the ethics of existing legal approaches to alcohol and other drugs. Lawyers suggest that existing approaches to the practice of lawyering for people who use drugs are simultaneously beneficial and harmful, and that it can be implicated in the production of drug-related stigma, primarily through the enactment of the ‘addict’ as irrational and non-agentive. Lawyers raise concerns about the central emphasis placed on addiction in their work, and question whether different approaches might be possible. I also examine the views of decision makers on the utility of existing constructions of ‘addiction’.

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