This open access book explores the increasing role of psychoactive substances in contemporary everyday life, focussing on women's use. Drawing on an ethnographic study in Sweden, it uses cultural studies and queer phenomenology to analyse the women’s narratives of drug use relating to themes that encompass social, legal, cultural, embodied and gendered perspectives on drugs in the contemporar…
The prudent use of MEDICINES The search for new wonder drugs; Side effect and how to avoid them; A basic home medicine kit; Saving money on prescriptions; How to choose a pharmacist