Navigating Custodial Environments: Novel Psychoactive Substance Users Experiences of Stigma

Kelly Stockdale; Michelle Addison; Georgia Ramm

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-98286-7_7

Navigating Custodial Environments: Novel Psychoactive Substance Users Experiences of Stigma

Kelly Stockdale^*, Michelle Addison, Georgia Ramm

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Abstract

This chapter explores the everyday experiences of people who use substances in different custodial settings: a busy city centre police custody suite and a Category C prison. We discuss the stigma associated with substance use, particularly the way Novel Psychoactive Substance (NPS) use is recognised, understood, and managed by staff. We explore the mechanisms of stigma within custodial settings and argue that the stigma attached to NPS use is particularly wounding in the current social context because (i) people who use NPS tend to be already highly vulnerable, experiencing marginalisation, minoritisation and multiple co-occurring stressors, (ii) NPS is perceived as a low-status drug, located at the bottom of a moral economy of drug use (Wakeman in Critical Criminology 24:363–377, 2006).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Drugs, Identity and Stigma
Editors	Michelle Addison, William McGovern, Ruth McGovern
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	147-172
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	1st
ISBN (Print)	9783030982850
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98286-7_7
Publication status	Published - 14 Jul 2022

Keywords

Drugs
Novel Psychoactive Substances
Prison
Police
Custody

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Navigating Custodial Environments: Novel Psychoactive Substance Users Experiences of Stigma. / Stockdale, Kelly; Addison, Michelle; Ramm, Georgia.
Drugs, Identity and Stigma. ed. / Michelle Addison; William McGovern; Ruth McGovern. 1st. ed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. p. 147-172.

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