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Drugs Discourse In Denial:Can We Talk About Pleasure
Yet?Dayle Stubbs
Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL)
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Why Pleasure?
Pleasure is fundamental
To the human condition
To happiness, to a good life, a pleasant life
Pleasure
Absence of Displeasure
Satisfaction
(Martin 2008: 148)
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Pleasure in Context: The Dilemma
People use drugs because it feels good, but
In treatment settings, we must NOT speak of pleasure – we must erase it from memory
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Treatment Settings: Silencing Pleasure
The Million Dollar Question:
“Why do you use drugs?”
“Because I like it”
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Why can’t we talk about pleasure?
Why is pleasure unacknowledged and unexplored in treatment settings?
And what are the consequences for that?
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Why we can’t talk about pleasureMoralism of Abstinence
Pleasure framed as false
Drug user as inauthentic, as less – as an object of either pity or derision
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Pleasure As The Missing Link?Could treatment experiences (and
outcomes) be improved if we were allowed to acknowledge pleasure?
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