Living with addiction: The perspectives of drug using and non-using individuals about sharing space in a hospital setting

摘要: Hospitals seem to be places where harm reduction approaches could have great benefit but few responded the needs of people who use drugs. Drawing on recent theoretical contributions from health geography, we examine how implementation is shaped by space and contested understandings place health. We drug pose challenges offer opportunities in hospital-based care using interview data living with HIV were or had recently been admitted a hospital an innovative policy. Our reveal spatial arrangements (and related practices corporeal relations) that occur due discordance between regulatory Rather than de-stigmatising at Casey House Hospital, adoption policy sparked inter-client conflict, reproduced dominant discourses about users, highlights sharing when involved. The setting produces particular ways being for those do not drugs demarcation context. Moving forward, practice research consider more just interactions users healthcare providers, role administrative policies; it position ethics forefront understanding collisions people, use, place, space. raise questions relationship subjectivity mediating success reduction.