@article{ref1,
title=""I am not a drug abuser, I am a drug user": a discourse analysis of 44 drug users' construction of identity",
journal="Addiction research and theory",
year="2005",
author="Rødner, Sharon",
volume="13",
number="4",
pages="333-346",
abstract="Based on individual conversational interviews with 44 socially integrated drug users in Stockholm, this article examines the informants' self-presentations and their representations of drug abusers. The results show that the informants strive towards positive self-presentation. In this process, the drug abuser identity is important as it provides a negative identity that reinforces the informants' desired self-presentation. The mechanisms of negative Other-presentations derive from a background in which the informants attempt to escape a socially ascribed deviant identity and exchange it for a not yet stabilised positive identity.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1606-6359",
doi="10.1080/16066350500136276",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16066350500136276"
}