Isolation, Solitude and Social Distancing for People Who Use Drugs

An Ethnographic Perspective

Dados Bibliográficos

ID15528985
AutoresLaura Roe (0000-0001-8240-8939, University of St Andrews, autor correspondente), J Proudfoot (0000-0002-5828-2341, Durham University), Joseph Tay Wee Teck (0000-0001-5199-7013, University of St Andrews), Richard D G Irvine (0000-0003-0468-4510, University of St Andrews), Stan Frankland (0000-0003-1943-5218, University of St Andrews), Alex Baldacchino (0000-0002-5388-7376, University of St Andrews), Alexander Mario Baldacchino
Ano2021
Volume11
Páginas623032-623032
Data de publicação2021-01-13
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFrontiers in Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1664-0640 • E-ISSN: 1664-0640
EditoraFrontiers Media (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3389/fpsyt.2020.623032
PMID33519561
OpenAlexW3119493996
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas44

COVID-19 has resulted in deepened states of crisis and vulnerability for people who use drugs throughout Europe and across the world, with social distancing measures having far-reaching implications for everyday life. Prolonged periods of isolation and solitude are acknowledged within much addiction literature as negatively impacting the experiences of those in recovery, while also causing harm to active users - many of whom depend on social contact for the purchasing and taking of substances, as well as myriad forms of support. Solitude, however, is proposed by the authors as inherent within some aspects of substance use, far from particular to the current pandemic. Certain forms of substance use engender solitary experience, even where use is predicated upon the presence of others. Adopting a cross-disciplinary perspective, this paper takes as its focus the urgent changes wrought by the pandemic upon everyday life for people who use drugs, drawing on recent ethnographic fieldwork with substance users in Scotland. Beyond the current crises, the paper proposes solitude, and by extension isolation, as an analytical framework for better apprehending lived experiences of substance use

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Disease · Distancing · Ethnography · Isolation (microbiology · Perspective (graphical · Psychotherapist · Social distance · Social isolation · Sociology · Solitude · Anthropology · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes