Michelle Addison
Biographic Data
| ID | 328586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Addison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Addison |
| SIGNATURE | ADDISON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8017-8188 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
‘Even if you are guilty, you’re still a human being’
Background The aim of this paper is to explore harms to health and dignity generated through stigma from the perspective of people detained in police custody, a neglected population in healthcare research. We adopt an original theoretical approach, bringing together a human rights lens to health, stigma, and the Inverse Care Law (ICL) to show how stigma contributes to the degradation of dignity and poor experiences of quality care within custody.…
How does the integration of health and justice systems impact on health and care inequalities in marginalised populations? A mixed methods systematic review
Stigma and the Inverse Care Law
This paper explores the connection between stigma and the Inverse Care Law (ICL) by focussing on the idea that people who have the greatest needs often have the least support from healthcare services. Twenty-four semi-structured interviews were undertaken with people who used class A & B illicit drugs, in the northeast of England. Many of the people in this study who used illicit drugs were not able to access quality healthcare in a timely way to…
Marginalised Voices in Criminology
This book is about people who are marginalised in criminology; it is an attempt to make space and amplify voices that are too often overlooked, spoken about, or for. In recognising the deep-seated structural inequalities that exist within criminal justice, higher education, and the field of criminology, we offer this text as a critical pause to the reader and invite you to reflect and consider within your studies and learning experience, your tea…
Exploring the Impact of Stigma on Health and Wellbeing
Stigmatisation is the process by which an individual is devalued based on their attributes, characteristics, and/or behaviour, with this often leading to prejudice, social and health-related harms, active discrimination, and microaggressions. The aim of this paper is to show how social harms can occur and how stigma is damaging to the health and wellbeing of a person in recovery. To do so, we focus on the harms that arise from the internalisation…
The Adoption of a “Diseased Identity” in Traditional 12-Step Groups
Self-help groups are increasingly utilised by communities of interest and shared experience, services, and government departments as platforms for supporting and improving health and social care outcomes for drug and alcohol users. Traditional 12-step self-help groups like Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous (NA and AA) are worldwide organisations and each have their own programme of change, language, criteria for membership, processes f…
Relational stigma as a social determinant of health
The aim of the paper is to understand how people who use drugs (PWUD) experience stigma. To examine this issue, this paper draws on Bourdieu's logic of practice to understand how social harm emerges relationally between people via ‘mechanisms of stigma’. This paper draws on 24 qualitative semi-structured interviews with people who use drugs (heroin, crack/cocaine, amphetamine, ecstasy; 11 men/12 women/1 transgender) living in the northeast of Eng…
Ethical and practical considerations for including marginalised groups in quantitative survey research
This paper considers the ethical and practical issues of recruiting for, and administering a quantitative survey with marginalised populations. These issues were identified through a focus group discussion, which consolidated and expanded upon informal conversations held previously by five researchers about their experiences of conducting a face-to-face survey (using predominantly quantitative questions) with people who used amphetamine type subs…
Framing stigma as an avoidable social harm that widens inequality
This article discusses the social harms arising out of stigma experienced by people who use drugs (PWUD), and how stigmatisation compromises 'human flourishing' and constrains 'life choices'. Drawing on Wellcome Trust qualitative research using in-depth, semi-structured interview data ( N = 24) with people who use heroin, crack cocaine, spice and amphetamine, this article firstly provides insight into how stigma is operationalised relationally be…
Drugs, Identity and Stigma
Substance Use, Health, and Adverse Life Events amongst Amphetamine-Type Stimulant Users in North East England
Amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) are the second most commonly used class of illicit drugs globally, yet there is limited understanding of which factors contribute to different pathways of ATS use. We sought to compare current, former, and exposed non-ATS users' substance use, mental/physical health, and adverse life experiences. A cross-sectional survey, using computer-assisted personal interview software, was conducted between June 2018 and Mar…
Drugs, Identity and Stigma
An Exploration of the Psycho-Social Benefits of Providing Sponsorship and Supporting Others in Traditional 12 Step, Self-Help Groups
Sponsorship is a key feature of traditional drug and alcohol self-help groups. It is a source of interpersonal support provided by an individual who is in a more advanced stage of recovery to an individual at an earlier stage of recovery. Whilst it is widely recognised that sponsorship is beneficial to the person receiving it, little is known about the psychological and social benefits that sponsors derive from providing sponsorship to others. We…
Exploring pathways into and out of amphetamine type stimulant use at critical turning points
Amphetamine Type Stimulants (ATS) are increasingly used drugs globally. There is limited evidence about what shapes ATS use at critical turning points located within drug using pathways. Using turning point theory, as part of a life course approach, the ATTUNE study aimed to understand which social, economic and individual factors shape pathways into and out of ATS use. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews (n = 70) were undertaken with individ…
You’re Nicked
Review of: You’re Nicked: Investigating British Television Police Series , Ben Lamb (2020) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 232 pp., ISBN 978-1-52612-590-9, £80.00
Containment and care? A qualitative interview study exploring police custody staff views about delivering brief alcohol interventions to heavy drinking arrestees
Heavy alcohol use and associated needs are prevalent amongst arrestees. The custody suite offers an opportunity to identify and intervene with this population. However, it is unclear whether functions of care can be effectively delivered within an environment of containment. This study aimed to examine custody staff experiences of screening and delivering brief alcohol interventions to heavy drinking arrestees. Qualitative interviews were conduct…
The Association Between Adverse Child Health, Psychological, Educational and Social Outcomes, and Nondependent Parental Substance
Background: Between 5% and 30% of children in high-income countries live with a substance misusing parent, the majority of which is below dependent levels. However, little is understood about the impact of nondependent parental substance misuse upon children. Methods: We searched the international literature using rigorous systematic methods to identify studies examining parental substance misuse and adverse outcomes in children. The inclusion cr…
Caring on the Clock
This edited collection, focusing predominantly on an American economic and social context, presents a comprehensive insight into the everyday practices of - and challenges for - people working in the area of paid care work. The book is split into six different sections: ‘Paid Care Work’; ‘Contexts of Care’; ‘Hazards of Care’; ‘Identities and Meaning-Making’; ‘Work and Family’, and; ‘Paths to Change’. All of the authors in this book make important…
Talking the Talk and Fitting In
In this article we raise questions about fitting in pertaining to various classed identities within two UK Higher Education Institutions (HEI). We discuss the pains and privileges attached to accent and ways of speaking worth: Who is able to mobilize and capitalize on inscribed values, as they come to be attached to ways of talking? Accents and ways of talking are part of embodied class identities and whilst some carry connotations of intelligenc…
Queer Presences and Absences
This book explores changes and continuations in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer lives, identities and spatial practices in the 21st century from around the globe, using a range of method
Placing Research
This article raises questions about who becomes the proper subject for (non)academic attention in a time when 'city publics' might be positioned as democratising and open or, conversely, as curtailed and shaped through specific and pre-determined economies of value and use. The use of the city and its residents are echoed in regeneration politics and objectives, attached to and brought forward by specific 'regenerative' subjects, now deemed 'resi…
Re)constituting the past, (re)branding the present and (re)imagining the future
The themes of mobility and transformation occupy centre stage in many sociological accounts, where ‘movement’ references people and places in ‘new’ times, often without situating how movements may actually be embedding or reconstituting inequalities, spatially, culturally and materially. Attention to how gender and class may be reconfigured queries straightforward notions of change, even ‘crisis’, pointing towards the reshaping of exclusions and …
Talking the Talk and Fitting In
In this article we raise questions about fitting in pertaining to various classed identities within two UK Higher Education Institutions (HEI). We discuss the pains and privileges attached to accent and ways of speaking worth: Who is able to mobilize and capitalize on inscribed values, as they come to be attached to ways of talking? Accents and ways of talking are part of embodied class identities and whilst some carry connotations of intelligenc…
Placing Research
This article raises questions about who becomes the proper subject for (non)academic attention in a time when 'city publics' might be positioned as democratising and open or, conversely, as curtailed and shaped through specific and pre-determined economies of value and use. The use of the city and its residents are echoed in regeneration politics and objectives, attached to and brought forward by specific 'regenerative' subjects, now deemed 'resi…
Framing stigma as an avoidable social harm that widens inequality
This article discusses the social harms arising out of stigma experienced by people who use drugs (PWUD), and how stigmatisation compromises 'human flourishing' and constrains 'life choices'. Drawing on Wellcome Trust qualitative research using in-depth, semi-structured interview data ( N = 24) with people who use heroin, crack cocaine, spice and amphetamine, this article firstly provides insight into how stigma is operationalised relationally be…
Exploring pathways into and out of amphetamine type stimulant use at critical turning points
Amphetamine Type Stimulants (ATS) are increasingly used drugs globally. There is limited evidence about what shapes ATS use at critical turning points located within drug using pathways. Using turning point theory, as part of a life course approach, the ATTUNE study aimed to understand which social, economic and individual factors shape pathways into and out of ATS use. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews (n = 70) were undertaken with individ…
Ethical and practical considerations for including marginalised groups in quantitative survey research
This paper considers the ethical and practical issues of recruiting for, and administering a quantitative survey with marginalised populations. These issues were identified through a focus group discussion, which consolidated and expanded upon informal conversations held previously by five researchers about their experiences of conducting a face-to-face survey (using predominantly quantitative questions) with people who used amphetamine type subs…
Caring on the Clock
This edited collection, focusing predominantly on an American economic and social context, presents a comprehensive insight into the everyday practices of - and challenges for - people working in the area of paid care work. The book is split into six different sections: ‘Paid Care Work’; ‘Contexts of Care’; ‘Hazards of Care’; ‘Identities and Meaning-Making’; ‘Work and Family’, and; ‘Paths to Change’. All of the authors in this book make important…
Re)constituting the past, (re)branding the present and (re)imagining the future
The themes of mobility and transformation occupy centre stage in many sociological accounts, where ‘movement’ references people and places in ‘new’ times, often without situating how movements may actually be embedding or reconstituting inequalities, spatially, culturally and materially. Attention to how gender and class may be reconfigured queries straightforward notions of change, even ‘crisis’, pointing towards the reshaping of exclusions and …
Stigma and the Inverse Care Law
This paper explores the connection between stigma and the Inverse Care Law (ICL) by focussing on the idea that people who have the greatest needs often have the least support from healthcare services. Twenty-four semi-structured interviews were undertaken with people who used class A & B illicit drugs, in the northeast of England. Many of the people in this study who used illicit drugs were not able to access quality healthcare in a timely way to…
Re)constituting the past, (re)branding the present and (re)imagining the future
The themes of mobility and transformation occupy centre stage in many sociological accounts, where ‘movement’ references people and places in ‘new’ times, often without situating how movements may actually be embedding or reconstituting inequalities, spatially, culturally and materially. Attention to how gender and class may be reconfigured queries straightforward notions of change, even ‘crisis’, pointing towards the reshaping of exclusions and …
Placing Research
This article raises questions about who becomes the proper subject for (non)academic attention in a time when 'city publics' might be positioned as democratising and open or, conversely, as curtailed and shaped through specific and pre-determined economies of value and use. The use of the city and its residents are echoed in regeneration politics and objectives, attached to and brought forward by specific 'regenerative' subjects, now deemed 'resi…
Queer Presences and Absences
This book explores changes and continuations in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer lives, identities and spatial practices in the 21st century from around the globe, using a range of method
Talking the Talk and Fitting In
In this article we raise questions about fitting in pertaining to various classed identities within two UK Higher Education Institutions (HEI). We discuss the pains and privileges attached to accent and ways of speaking worth: Who is able to mobilize and capitalize on inscribed values, as they come to be attached to ways of talking? Accents and ways of talking are part of embodied class identities and whilst some carry connotations of intelligenc…
Caring on the Clock
This edited collection, focusing predominantly on an American economic and social context, presents a comprehensive insight into the everyday practices of - and challenges for - people working in the area of paid care work. The book is split into six different sections: ‘Paid Care Work’; ‘Contexts of Care’; ‘Hazards of Care’; ‘Identities and Meaning-Making’; ‘Work and Family’, and; ‘Paths to Change’. All of the authors in this book make important…
You’re Nicked
Review of: You’re Nicked: Investigating British Television Police Series , Ben Lamb (2020) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 232 pp., ISBN 978-1-52612-590-9, £80.00
Containment and care? A qualitative interview study exploring police custody staff views about delivering brief alcohol interventions to heavy drinking arrestees
Heavy alcohol use and associated needs are prevalent amongst arrestees. The custody suite offers an opportunity to identify and intervene with this population. However, it is unclear whether functions of care can be effectively delivered within an environment of containment. This study aimed to examine custody staff experiences of screening and delivering brief alcohol interventions to heavy drinking arrestees. Qualitative interviews were conduct…
The Association Between Adverse Child Health, Psychological, Educational and Social Outcomes, and Nondependent Parental Substance
Background: Between 5% and 30% of children in high-income countries live with a substance misusing parent, the majority of which is below dependent levels. However, little is understood about the impact of nondependent parental substance misuse upon children. Methods: We searched the international literature using rigorous systematic methods to identify studies examining parental substance misuse and adverse outcomes in children. The inclusion cr…
An Exploration of the Psycho-Social Benefits of Providing Sponsorship and Supporting Others in Traditional 12 Step, Self-Help Groups
Sponsorship is a key feature of traditional drug and alcohol self-help groups. It is a source of interpersonal support provided by an individual who is in a more advanced stage of recovery to an individual at an earlier stage of recovery. Whilst it is widely recognised that sponsorship is beneficial to the person receiving it, little is known about the psychological and social benefits that sponsors derive from providing sponsorship to others. We…
Exploring pathways into and out of amphetamine type stimulant use at critical turning points
Amphetamine Type Stimulants (ATS) are increasingly used drugs globally. There is limited evidence about what shapes ATS use at critical turning points located within drug using pathways. Using turning point theory, as part of a life course approach, the ATTUNE study aimed to understand which social, economic and individual factors shape pathways into and out of ATS use. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews (n = 70) were undertaken with individ…
Drugs, Identity and Stigma
Substance Use, Health, and Adverse Life Events amongst Amphetamine-Type Stimulant Users in North East England
Amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) are the second most commonly used class of illicit drugs globally, yet there is limited understanding of which factors contribute to different pathways of ATS use. We sought to compare current, former, and exposed non-ATS users' substance use, mental/physical health, and adverse life experiences. A cross-sectional survey, using computer-assisted personal interview software, was conducted between June 2018 and Mar…
Drugs, Identity and Stigma
Relational stigma as a social determinant of health
The aim of the paper is to understand how people who use drugs (PWUD) experience stigma. To examine this issue, this paper draws on Bourdieu's logic of practice to understand how social harm emerges relationally between people via ‘mechanisms of stigma’. This paper draws on 24 qualitative semi-structured interviews with people who use drugs (heroin, crack/cocaine, amphetamine, ecstasy; 11 men/12 women/1 transgender) living in the northeast of Eng…
Ethical and practical considerations for including marginalised groups in quantitative survey research
This paper considers the ethical and practical issues of recruiting for, and administering a quantitative survey with marginalised populations. These issues were identified through a focus group discussion, which consolidated and expanded upon informal conversations held previously by five researchers about their experiences of conducting a face-to-face survey (using predominantly quantitative questions) with people who used amphetamine type subs…
Framing stigma as an avoidable social harm that widens inequality
This article discusses the social harms arising out of stigma experienced by people who use drugs (PWUD), and how stigmatisation compromises 'human flourishing' and constrains 'life choices'. Drawing on Wellcome Trust qualitative research using in-depth, semi-structured interview data ( N = 24) with people who use heroin, crack cocaine, spice and amphetamine, this article firstly provides insight into how stigma is operationalised relationally be…
Marginalised Voices in Criminology
This book is about people who are marginalised in criminology; it is an attempt to make space and amplify voices that are too often overlooked, spoken about, or for. In recognising the deep-seated structural inequalities that exist within criminal justice, higher education, and the field of criminology, we offer this text as a critical pause to the reader and invite you to reflect and consider within your studies and learning experience, your tea…
Exploring the Impact of Stigma on Health and Wellbeing
Stigmatisation is the process by which an individual is devalued based on their attributes, characteristics, and/or behaviour, with this often leading to prejudice, social and health-related harms, active discrimination, and microaggressions. The aim of this paper is to show how social harms can occur and how stigma is damaging to the health and wellbeing of a person in recovery. To do so, we focus on the harms that arise from the internalisation…
The Adoption of a “Diseased Identity” in Traditional 12-Step Groups
Self-help groups are increasingly utilised by communities of interest and shared experience, services, and government departments as platforms for supporting and improving health and social care outcomes for drug and alcohol users. Traditional 12-step self-help groups like Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous (NA and AA) are worldwide organisations and each have their own programme of change, language, criteria for membership, processes f…
Stigma and the Inverse Care Law
This paper explores the connection between stigma and the Inverse Care Law (ICL) by focussing on the idea that people who have the greatest needs often have the least support from healthcare services. Twenty-four semi-structured interviews were undertaken with people who used class A & B illicit drugs, in the northeast of England. Many of the people in this study who used illicit drugs were not able to access quality healthcare in a timely way to…
‘Even if you are guilty, you’re still a human being’
Background The aim of this paper is to explore harms to health and dignity generated through stigma from the perspective of people detained in police custody, a neglected population in healthcare research. We adopt an original theoretical approach, bringing together a human rights lens to health, stigma, and the Inverse Care Law (ICL) to show how stigma contributes to the degradation of dignity and poor experiences of quality care within custody.…
How does the integration of health and justice systems impact on health and care inequalities in marginalised populations? A mixed methods systematic review
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