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19 Contemp. Drug Probs. 459 (1992)
Deconstructing Dependence: An Ethnographic Critique of an Influential Concept

handle is hein.journals/condp19 and id is 473 raw text is: Contemporary Drug Problems/Fall 1992 4.-y Deconstructing dependence: an ethnographic critique of an influential concept BY DAVID MOORE David Moore is an anthropologist who is currently a visiting research fellow at the Addiction Studies Unit (School of Psychology, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia, 6001) and an honorary research fellow at the National Centre for Research into the Prevention of Drug Abuse. He has published articles on the social meaning of alcohol and drug use, harm reduction among youth, and ethnographic methodology, and is currently working on his doctoral dissertation on the anthropology of illicit drug use. AUTHOR'S NOTE: The field research on which this paper is based was sup- ported by a grant from the Research into Drug Abuse Programme of the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse and was conducted while the author was employed by the National Centre for Research into the Preven- tion of Drug Abuse. An earlier version of the paper won the Syd Lovibond Prize, awarded by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (Uni- versity of New South Wales, Australia), and I am grateful for NDARC's permission to revise and publish it here. While bearing sole responsibility for the final version, I would like to acknowledge the invaluable input of Laura, Lisa and Vinnie (pseudonyms), who spoke willingly about their experiences and interpretations. My thanks are also due to David Hawks, Alison Marsh, Phil Moore, Basil Sansom, Bill Saunders, Tim Stockwell, and two anonymous referees for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. © 1993 by Federal Legal Publications, Inc.

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