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Habits Remaking Addiction Book Information What is 'addiction'? What does it say about us, our social arrangements and our political preoccupations? How are ideas about and responses to addiction changing and what is at stake in these developments? These are the questions this book seeks to answer. Using Science and Technology Studies theory and an impressive range of international empirical data including interviews, policy documents, media texts and scientific literature, this book traces three burgeoning areas of addiction attribution and concern: • The much feared 'meth' epidemic; • New concerns over youth 'binge drinking'; and • The rise of 'food addiction'. How is addiction being remade in new debates about stimulant drugs, alcohol, and 'highly palatable' foods such as sugar? How might the primary source of accepted wisdom on drugs – scientific knowledge – contribute to these definitions? Are there points at which the sciences (and the public discourses that rely on them) trip over their own blindspots or repeat unexamined assumptions, inadvertently undoing their own certainties about drugs and addiction? As this book finds, addiction is habit in more ways than one. www.palgravemacmillan.com.au AU$135.00 Hb, ISBN 9780230308107 April 2014, 288 pages Palgrave Macmillan UK Special DiScount! only au$108.00 For orDerS placeD on thiS Form, pluS hanDling Suzanne Fraser, David Moore and Helen Keane  Habits - Remaking Addiction 9780230308107 AU$108.00 Handling Fee AU$10.00 Order Form Please supply titles as indicated below. DELIVERY ADDRESS (Please attach your business card if appropriate) Name: Department: Email: Institute: Campus: Address: Phone: Postcode: (Street address is required for delivery - do not state PO Box number) QTY TITLE ISBN PRICE Please ask a representative to contact me ASAP Please send me catalogues in this subject area How did you receive this information? Mailing Conference Representative Other BILLING ADDRESS Name: Address: Postcode: Please place FIRM ORDERS with your usual bookseller. In case of difficulty contact us directly. Prices referred to herein are recommended only and there is no obligation to comply with the recommendation. A small order surcharge applies. Otherwise freight is free of charge. Prices correct at time of printing and subject to change without notice. Prices include GST. METHOD OF PAYMENT • Please invoice us - Order No. (Attach your official order with this order number) • We enclose a cheque or charge our credit card for $ payable to Macmillan Publishers Australia Pty Ltd Card No. MasterCard Visa Cardholders Name Signature Expiry Date / / Victoria/Tasmania Level 1, 15-19 Claremont Street, South Yarra 3141 Tel (03) 9825 1111 Fax (03) 9825 1010 New South Wales/ACT Level 25, BT Tower 1 Market Street, Sydney 2000 Tel (02) 9285 9111 Fax (02) 9285 9290 New Zealand 24 The Warehouse Way Northcote, Auckland Tel (09) 905 3200 Fax (09) 905 3225 /PalgraveMacmillanAustralia @PalgraveAus bookmindthinker.wordpress.com A division of Macmillan Publishers Australia Pty Ltd ABN 96 004 688 519 HOW TO CONTACT US www.palgravemacmillan.com.au fax your regional office email your regional office [email protected] phone your regional office Palgrave Macmillan is committed to protecting your privacy. By supplying your details you give Palgrave Macmillan permission to contact you about Palgrave Macmillan products and services. Palgrave Macmillan will only use the information provided by you for the intended purpose. Should you not wish to be thus contacted, please contact us on (03) 9825 1111 or at [email protected] Introduction 1. Models of Addiction 2. Stabilising Stimulants: Amphetamine Dependence and Methamphetamine Addiction 3. Making Methamphetamine in Drug Policy and Consumer Accounts 4. A Field in Disarray? The Constitution of Alcohol Addiction in Expert Debates 5. Assembling Alcohol Problems: Young People and Drinking 6. Junk: The Neuroscience of Food Addiction and Obesity 7. Stepping to the Side of Addiction: Everyday Realities of Overeating and Obesity Conclusion: A Multiverse of Habits – 'Addicting' Science, Policy and Experience Table of Contents Suzanne Fraser is an Associate Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, Australia. She leads the Social Studies of Addiction Concepts Research Program and has published widely on drug use, health, the body and science. David Moore is a Professor at the National Drug Research Institute at Curtin University, Australia. He leads the Ethnographic Research Program and has written extensively on the social and cultural contexts of alcohol and other drug use. Helen Keane is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University. She has written extensively on alcohol and other drug use, pharmaceutical drugs, understandings of addiction and harm reduction. She is the author of What's Wrong with Addiction? About the Authors