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44 Contemp. Drug Probs. 3 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/condp44 and id is 1 raw text is: Review Essay Contemporary Drug Problems 2017, Vol. 44(l) 3-1I © The Author(s) 2016 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Substances, Subjects, DOI: 10.1177/0091450916670268 journals.sagepub.com/home/cdx and the City OSAGE Helen Keane' Fitzgerald, J. (201 5). Framing drug use: Bodies, space, economy and crime. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan. US$162.62, 289 pages, ISBN 978-1-137-48223-5. Smith, C. B. R. (201 6). Addiction, modernity, and the city: A users' guide to urban space. New York, NY: Routledge. US$161.14, 233 pp, ISBN 978-1-138-79653-9. These books take the reader on a journey. This is a hackneyed notion often invoked to describe a process of inner growth or enlightenment, but in this case, the journey is closer to literal and definitely embodied. Spaces and places are traversed and visited: in Fitzgerald's text, the streetscapes of Mel- bourne and domestic interiors in a nearby regional town; in Smith's text, the intoxicating site of consumption and dislocation he calls the addicted city. Les Back has suggested that one of the challenges of 21st-century social research is how to account for the social world without assassinat- ing the life contained within it (2012, p. 21). As an alcohol and other drug researcher, I cannot resist some collegial pride at the liveliness of these two texts. Although full of information, they do not trade in fossil facts nor lifeless conceptions (p. 21). Before going any further, I should add that I know both authors and am mentioned in Smith's acknowledgments. Drugs and their use are central to the spaces encountered in these texts, which accounts for some of their liveliness (although the proximity of death is not ignored). Both authors are committed to producing effects with their writing that go beyond the cognitive. Fitzgerald notes that when drugs combine with bodies, they change the parameters of the perceptible world (p. x), and in this sense, both books act like the substances they describe and explore. Smith's text even includes discographies and filmographies to enhance the reader's trip. Conceptually, the parameters of what is habitually referred to as alcohol and other drug use and the boundaries of the category of addiction are expanded to incorporate global capitalism, the history of modernity, the pleasures of music, the experience of falling in love, and the question of how we encounter the world. It's a lot to take in. Given the scope of the journey contained in these two books, I will begin with a simple overview. This is followed by a more detailed account of content, focusing on the texts' engagement with two central concepts in drug research: pathologization and the risk environment. In addition to the specific School of Sociology, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia Received July 31, 2016. Accepted for publication August 31, 2016. Corresponding Author: Helen Keane, School of Sociology, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra 2601, Australia. Email: helen.keane@anu.edu.au

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