| 英文摘要 |
Drug use has long been a central concern of national policy and social governance, yet its public representation remains dominated by narratives of incorrigible habits, recidivism, and insufficient social support. This article examines the current public governance regime’s excessive reliance on professionally led definitions of addiction recovery and, in contrast, treats drug users as active agents. Drawing on Bourdieu’s field theory, it reconstructs their governed experiences within existing systems and their self-narratives of ideal recovery. Using qualitative methods, including in-depth interviews and participant observation with 35 participants, this study shows how individuals, once compelled into public governance systems, become exposed to risk environments shaped by these regimes. Divergent definitions of recovery contribute to identity shifts, whereby individuals who initially identify as“productive workers, self-healing patients, and citizens with the right to recreational drug use”are redefined within the system as“senior drug users, chronically ill prisoners, and disenfranchised youth”, respectively. This process highlights a paradoxical predicament: despite their active struggles for survival, they remain unable to attain recovery. This study concludes with the following: (1) the disjuncture between professional discourses and users’own understandings of recovery depletes their various forms of capital and reinforces drug-use habitus; (2) multi-public governance systems create intersecting risk environments that obstruct everyday life in recovery. Based on these findings, this study offers implications for social work and policy reform. |