Laws Upon the Body of those Labeled Addict

• In Event: Bodies as Feeling and Unruly Sites of Resistance

Abstract

This paper explores the ways that culture produces the person labeled as “drug addict” through society’s reliance on juridical systems of power. Persons labeled as addicts are, by definition, criminals and “deviants” who it is deemed necessary to control for the safety of others. Control is accomplished by denying individual agency and through bodily control through the construction of systems of care and with the support of dominant racialized and gendered systems of prisons and healthcare.

Presenter

• Lynn Madden, APT Foundation, Inc.