Second Year Hon. Mention: Developing an Anti-discriminatory Approach to the Treatment of Injection Drug Users

SOWK 2050A, Identity, Diversity and Anti-Discriminatory Practice. CD: Anne McConnell.

Abstract

The paper is maturely written and makes effective use of the author’s extensive experience of working with drug users in her workplace. The paper articulates well the challenges facing any attempt to bring the theory and practice of social justice activism into the prevailing biomedical discourse as that discourse is reified and institutionalized in the form of the contemporary hospital. The paper is amply researched and the sources are admirably current. The readers’ admired the paper’s passion and its focused commitment to the development of anti-discriminatory practices in the specific case of injection drug users.