Drug consumption rooms: Comparing times, spaces and actors in issues of social acceptability in French public debate

The International Journal on Drug Policy
Marie Jauffret-Roustide, Isabelle Cailbault

Abstract

In October 2016, the first French drug consumption room (DCR) opened in Paris. We propose to examine the process through which this issue has been framed as a matter of public concern, after being ignored for almost 20 years. Our analysis of the controversy on DCRs investigates how public conversations on harm reduction evolve according to the time period (from the 1990s to the present), scale of discourse (local vs. national), and involved actors (politicians, professionals, local residents, and drug users). Our methodology includes analyses of media content: we reviewed 1735 articles published between 1990 and 2017. Our theoretical approach is in line with the sociology "des épreuves" derived from pragmatic sociology and controversy analysis. This approach goes beyond interactionism by attempting to place situations back into broader sociological realities. We also pay special attention to governance, a political lens that focuses on local aspects of negotiations and on the implication of a variety of actors. While the current debate on DCRs in France draws on constraints and resources already present in the harm reduction debate of the 1980s, it also repositions itself by avoiding moral argumentation and featuring less confr...Continue Reading

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Mar 19, 2020·Cadernos de saúde pública·Ygor Diego Delgado AlvesPaulo Sergio Peres
Apr 13, 2019·The International Journal on Drug Policy·Thu Trang NguyenMarie Jauffret-Roustide
Jul 22, 2020·The International Journal on Drug Policy·H R SumnallA McAuley
Oct 16, 2020·Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy·Maria Teresa Munoz SastreEtienne Mullet

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