Chemical intent: Imagining the drug using client and the human service worker in harm minimisation policy

摘要: This thesis is based on an Australian Research Council funded research grant. Fifty-one qualitative interviews were conducted with human service workers to gain understanding of their interpretations clients' 'drug problems' and own role, the system wider policies. Although harm minimisation has been Australia's official drug policy since 1985, little known about how 'enacted' in helping culture. To date have not recognised constitutive role discourse. Whilst a significant part interventions are delivered via services, subject come under scrutiny. The using remains ill-conceived as result neglecting its partnering others or indeed overlapping other positions. Moving beyond recognising only terms staff opinions attitudes, relational multi-level approach adopted introduce more complexity into debate. After brief historic discussion creation 'human worker' user' (as client) methodological considerations discourse analysis, proceeds introduction conceptual framework consisting four levels: individual, relational, institutional cultural political economic level. These levels used examine existing literature problem factories' for analysis data. By focusing these critical interview material shows that 'harm' 'minimising' themselves contested categories different harms producing minimising practices can be identified some which discourse, excluded entirely absent. struggle make sense define users being 'helped' could should helped.;Their aligns with, supports and/or resists discourses such (neo)liberalism, neoconservatism, prohibition rationalism. portrayed having substituted increasing initial simplicity course working users'. In summary, this offers poststructuralist constituted, negotiated undermined from perspective systems' cultures enrol practices. Harm consists discursive non-discursive elements product deliberate social forces well messy contingencies unintended consequences.