Women’s Drug Use in Everyday Life

Acknowledgements
Contents
Part I Contextualising the Women and the Drugs
1 Introduction
	1.1 Representations
	1.2 Drugs in Everyday Life
	1.3 The Women Participants
		The interviewees
	1.4 A Power-Sensitive Approach
	1.5 The Interviews
	1.6 A Queer Phenomenological Approach to Drug Use
	1.7 Power Relations
	1.8 The Concepts of Lines and Orientation
	1.9 Respectability and Value
	1.10 Disposition
	1.11 Part I
	1.12 Part II
	References
2 Drugs, Alcohol and Medicine in Sweden
	2.1 Drug Laws and Drug Culture
	2.2 Women and Medication
		Women’s Physical Morality
	2.3 Sweden’s Drug Problem from the 1960s Onwards
	2.4 Qualitative Research on People Who Use Drugs
	References
Part II  Ethnographies of everyday drug use
3 The First Visits
	3.1 A Gateway?
	3.2 A Swamp?
	3.3 Sinking into the Ground
	References
4 Avoiding the Knarkare
	4.1 Invisible Dirt
	4.2 Keeping the Abuser on the Margins
	4.3 Dirt and Freedom
	4.4 Disgusting Syringes
	4.5 Conclusion
	References
5 Obtaining Drugs
	5.1 Out on the Town
		A Gendered, Classed and Racialised Street Market
	5.2 In One’s Own Social Circle
	5.3 Drugs as Gifts
		Women’s Reciprocity
		Homeliness
		Gifts Causing Trouble
	References
6 Staying Appropriate
	6.1 Keeping the Rhythm
	6.2 Hiding
	References
7 Behaving with Children
	References
8 Appropriate Drugs
	8.1 Medicines
		A Troublesome Brain
	8.2 Drugs as Medication
		Illegal Chemicals
		Performance Enhancers
	8.3 Legitimate Hedonism
	8.4 Responsibility for Oneself
	References
9 Negotiating Addiction
	9.1 The Will to Perform Class
	9.2 Does Pleasure Equate to Addiction?
	9.3 In and Out of Addiction
	9.4 The Will to Quit Using Drugs
	References
10 Happy Using Drugs?
	10.1 Distance and Closeness
	10.2 Unhappiness
	10.3 Drugs as Happiness
		An Almost Normative Happiness
		Forbidden Happiness
		Instead of the Right Kind of Happiness
	References
11 Is It Ok to Laugh?
	11.1 Laughter in Interviews
	11.2 The Story as Part of Drug Use
	11.3 Women’s Proud Madness
	References
12 Conclusions
	12.1 Tacit Ways of Acting Out
	12.2 Psychoactive Effects
	References
Appendix: Drugs and Medicines
Amphetamine, MDMA/Ecstasy and Amphetamine-Based Drugs
Benzodiazepines
Cannabis: Hashish, Marijuana and CBD Products
Cocaine and Crack Cocaine
LSD and Psilocybin
Opioids: Opium, Heroin, Morphine and Synthetic Opiates
SSRIs and Tricyclic Antidepressants
References
Index