TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - "I am not a drug abuser, I am a drug user": a discourse analysis of 44 drug users' construction of identity
JO  - Addiction research and theory
A1  - Rødner, Sharon
SP  - 333
EP  - 346
VL  - 13
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1606-6359
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16066350500136276
ID  - ref1
ER  -