{"id":1038,"date":"2022-03-14T22:19:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T03:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2022-03-14T22:20:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T03:20:48","slug":"march-14th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/2022\/03\/march-14th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"March 14th: Pastoral Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After reading Garcia\u2019s ethnography, I\u2019m most interested in her pastoral framework and how it contextualizes heroin use in New Mexico\u2019s Espa\u00f1ola Valley. Rather than using an isolationist approach that confines personal histories of addiction to an individual\u2019s psychology, the pastoral is able to address the historical and current forces that facilitate an environment conducive to individuals\u2019 drug addiction. Garcia also touches on the stigma of drug addiction and its role in inhibiting access to care. I believe that the words of one of her interviewees speaks to the embodiment of this stigma, she notes, \u201cTheir addiction, they said, was <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in the blood, like a virus, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">something they could not eradicate or recover from, even if they wanted to\u201d (202). I think that preconceptions and even misconceptions concerning addiction on the behalf of healthcare professionals plays into and solidifies addicts\u2019 diminished self worth and growing helplessness. This also gets at issues concerning dependency, so I\u2019d like to ask: When do those suffering from addiction get to occupy the sick role, if at all?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Garcia\u2019s ethnography, I\u2019m most interested in her pastoral framework and how it contextualizes heroin use in New Mexico\u2019s Espa\u00f1ola Valley. Rather than using an isolationist approach that confines personal histories of addiction to an individual\u2019s psychology, the pastoral &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/2022\/03\/march-14th-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/researchmatters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}