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My second interest is the historical construction of \u2018addiction\u2019 and the discursive intersections that produce various kinds of power, subjects, and techniques around this concept. I find the dialectical relationship between heroin and methadone in Ireland, especially the emergence of heroin \u2018injecting rooms\u2019, as a window into how drugs are social things. Drugs and the bodies who take them live in complex moral worlds, not as inert objects surrounded by abstract human creations. These worlds are an integral part of how \u2018addiction\u2019 works and how drugs treating addiction are actually used. 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