A Fine Line : Painkillers and Pleasure in the Age of Anxiety

Provides a long overdue full-length critical scholarly work on the subject of pharmaceutical opioid abuse

Canvasses historical shifts in Australian drug policy and international literature on non-medical consumption

Addresses the discursive construction of painkiller (ab)use as it is articulated in research and policy accounts

Provides an original empirical investigation that draws on the lived experience of those who engage in non-medical consumption