'n Sosiaal-konstruksionistiese studie van diskoerse in dwelmmisbruik

M.A.In this study different constructions regarding the social phenomenon of drug addiction will be examined. These constructions are woven through the narratives of four rehabilitated participants. Each participant explained their process of addiction by referring to the course of their addiction, rehabilitation, the drug addict and the drug itself. It was possible to identify general discourses in the drug addiction narratives through the process of discourse analysis. These discourses all form part of the reality constructions regarding drug addiction and contributes to the meaning-making processes in understanding such a phenomena. The importance of having a better understanding of drug addiction seems to be a matter of how we know, and not what we know about drug addiction