Scrounger narratives and dependent drug users: welfare, workfare and warfare

Since 2008 political and media attention has focused on the allegedly problematic behaviour of drug users who ‘choose’ to pursue their ‘habit’ at the expense of the hardworking taxpayer. This forms part of the ‘new welfare commonsense’, which censures welfare dependency and stigmatises drug users as...

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Main Authors:	Emma Wincup, Mark Monaghan
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2016
Subjects:	Other human society not elsewhere classified Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified Drug use Drug policy Welfare Social security Stigma Workfare Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/22908
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