"I am not a drug abuser, I am a drug user": A discourse analysis of 44 drug users' construction of identity

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 333-346

  Rødner, Sharon ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Drugs; Identity; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 22844438431     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066350500136276     Document Type: Article

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