The everyday lives of recovering heroin users Joanne Neale Sarah Nettleton Lucy Pickering The everyday lives of recovering heroin users The everyday lives of recovering heroin users Joanne Neale Sarah Nettleton Lucy Pickering Joanne Neale Professor of Public Health Faculty of Health & Life Sciences Oxford Brookes University Jack Straw’s Lane Marston Oxford OX3 0FL Email:
[email protected] Sarah Nettleton Reader in Sociology Department of Sociology Wentworth College University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD Email:
[email protected] Lucy Pickering Lecturer in Anthropology School of Social and Political Sciences University of Glasgow Adam Smith Building Glasgow G12 8RT Email:
[email protected] Published by the RSA 8 John Adam Street London WC2N 6EZ +44 (0)20 7930 5115 Registered as a charity in England and Wales no. 212424 and in Scotland no. SCO 37784 Copyright © Joanne Neale 2012 The RSA is an enlightenment organisation devoted to finding innovative and practical solutions to today’s pressing social problems Cover photo: ‘Wings of butterfly,’ John Foxx. © Thinkstock Designed by Soapbox, www.soapbox.co.uk Printed and bound by CPI Antony Rowe www.theRSA.org Contents Acknowledgements 9 Foreword 10 Chapter 1: Setting the scene 14 Why read this book? 14 Why focus on recovery? 15 What is recovery? 15 A study of the everyday lives of recovering heroin users 17 Structure of the book 18 Chapter 2: Considering recovery 20 Introduction 20 Mapping services and support 20 Factors that can encourage and sustain recovery efforts