People Who Use Drugs as Agents of Change: Peer-to-Peer Education as a Force for Positive Change

"People Who Use Drugs as Agents of Change: Peer-to-Peer Education as a Force for Positive Change." Substance Use & Misuse, 47(5), pp. 566–567

THE AUTHORS

Eliot Ross Albert holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and is Deputy Director/Program Coordinator of the International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD) and researcher, writer, and activist specializing in social organizations of people who use drugs. His interests are in applying the insights of Michel Foucault to critiquing and militating against the pathologization and stigmatization to which people who use drugs are subject—this has led him to a special interest in analyzing the power dynamics vested in the prevailing disease models of illicit drug use, and the construction of the addict, a term whose use he is particularly concerned to challenge. He is currently working on the invisibility of pleasure from prevailing discourses around drug use and has recently written a soon to be published paper critiquing harm reduction from the perspective of people who use drugs.