Using drugs to enhance capacities for action in everyday life practices: Analysing addiction stories’ descriptions of the escalation of substance use as counter-narratives

Generating knowledge about the relations, assemblages, and trajectories in which substance use acts as a productive force and identifying when and how it can become a mediator that limits, threatens, or impedes the capacities of actors to live functional lives provides important information for health professionals and practitioners. Such knowledge will deepen their understanding of the elements on which their prevention and treatment efforts should focus.