Conclusions

Abstract

AbstractThe women who were interviewed for this book have shown that the use of drugs can be very different from stereotypical representations. Many accounts of the women’s gendered use of drugs are, for example, remarkably calm; their adventures involving drug use take place internally and can be pursued in relation to, rather than deviating from, the surrounding society. I argue that the findings of variety and the women’s thought-provoking motives and considerations regarding drug use, which have been discussed throughout this book, highlight the discrepancy between drug use as a seemingly fixed and delimited problem, and the multitude of meanings and uses that it can actually have. This book calls for an intersectional revision of what drug use is, and how problems regarding drugs should be tackled, that takes social, material and cultural conditions into account. The world is not drug-free, and the changes of perspective in drug use, as well as the risks, depend upon the point in the world where that drug use takes place.