La morale du shoot. Responsabiliser les injecteurs de drogues?

Abstract

In this article, I question the moral economy of
health prevention between the values carried by the policy of
harm reduction and those of the injecting drug users living in
precarious conditions. Based on an ethnographic study con
ducted in France in shooting galleries and at drug prevention
associations, this article attempts to understand harm reduction
policies that try to encourage injection drug users to take re
sponsibility for their actions and to examine what the tensions
and moral judgments at work around this process signify. I
show the modes of appropriation, opposition or resistance of
these drug users in the face of the moral economy of prevention.