Habitar el encierro: etnografía de centros de atención de “adicciones”

Confinement in anexos (mutual-aid residential recovery centers) has become a socially legitimized response to problematic psychoactive substance use, sustained not only by structural shortcomings and the limited availability of public treatment services but also by dominant social conceptions of recovery. Drawing on the perspective of the critical sociology of drugs and based on ethnographic research conducted at two anexos in Mexico City, this article examines how young people incorporate, challenge, and negotiate discourses that conceive of recovery as the restoration of a pathological and deficient identity. The findings reveal that these conceptions are not uniformly embraced but are instead resignified in different ways throughout the course of their confinement.