Playing (Un)Dead: Interrogating Invocations of 'Monster' Metaphors in (Post-)MMT Service User Narratives of Methadone, Maintenance and Treatment

From social productivity to social costs to clinical stability, traditional outcome measurements employed in methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) serve to reinforce binary oppositions between sickness and health, 'dirty' and 'clean', stable and chaotic, life and death. Such binaries thus position the (post-)MMT service user according to a series of fixed axes that are in turn reproduced in popular and professional discourse.