Saris, A. Jamie (2008) An uncertain dominion: Irish psychiatry, methadone, and the treatment of opiate abuse. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 32, (2), pp. 259-77. DOI 10.1007/s11013-008-9089-z.
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This paper investigates some productive ambiguities around the medical administration of methadone in the Republic of Ireland.
The tensions surrounding methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) are outlined, as well as the sociohistorical context in which a serious heroin addiction problem in Ireland developed. Irish psychiatry intervened in this situation, during a time of institutional change, debates concerning the nature of addiction, moral panics concerning heroin addiction in Irish society and the recent boom in the Irish economy, known popularly as the Celtic Tiger. A particular history of this sort illuminates how technologies like MMT become cosmopolitan, settling into, while changing, local contexts.
HJ Treatment or recovery method > Substance disorder treatment method
HJ Treatment or recovery method > Substance disorder treatment method > Substance replacement method (substitution) > Opioid agonist treatment (methadone maintenance / buprenorphine)
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Treatment and maintenance > Treatment factors
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Type of care > Mental health care (Psychiatry / Psychology)
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Health care delivery
P Demography, epidemiology, and history > Substance use historical evolution
VA Geographic area > Europe > Ireland
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