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Drug treatment in the form of methadone and prescription drugs has only served to further stigmatize and disrespect their rights. Adult education aspires to be a discourse of resistance and a social movement for the creation of a diverse and just society. The work of Axel Honnethand his ‘Theory of Recognition’ can help to advance those aspirations and radically shift our understanding of the drug user and the recovery process.  \nIntroduction  \nDrug addiction continues to deepen its grip on Irish society. Heroin users now typically use a multitude of drugs, including cannabis, cocaine, benzodiazepines, anti-depressants, hypnotics, methadone and alcohol. Over the last twenty years the Irish State has responded with the development of a wide range of policies and services for drug users (Butler et al., 2005). Yet the drug problem continues to grow in size, complexity and cost. New drugs emerge with each generation. Addiction to prescription drugs is becoming a serious problem as increasing numbers of people are being medicated for their symptoms. Being on some form of medication is being increasingly normalized as the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession gain more control and influence over our understanding of health. However after nearly twenty years of methadone treatment for heroin addiction, the evidence on the ground is clear, that‘The Drugs Don’t Work. The only make you worse’ (Ashcroft, 1997) .  \nLongitudinal studies have shown that most people on methadone treatment are unable to abstain from heroin use for sustained periods, either switching  \nfrom treatment to regular heroin use or continuing to use heroin while in treatment (Bell et al., 2006; Dobler-Mikola et al., 2005) . Treatment outcomes are not encouraging if we examine them from an abstinence perspective. Fewer than four percent of addicts emerge from treatment free from dependency (Gyngell, 2011). The methadone clinic has become a dead-end for many drug users, who reluctantly reconcile themselves to a life on methadone (O’Brien, 2007) . In the UK the National Treatment Agency have expressed concerns with the number of people who are being parked on methadone (National Treatment Agency, 2012) . The average length of a methadone treatment is getting longer with many exceeding fifteen years on the substitute. The longer an individual is ‘in treatment’ the less likely they are to be motivated to utilize their potential to become drug-free.  \nDrug deaths have continued to rise, with 2,015 drug related deaths in Ireland in the six-year period between 2004 and 2009. Methadone was implicated in 345 of these deaths during the same period. That isan average of one death per week involving methadone over the six-year period (Health Research Board, 2011) . In a 2007 Danish study methadone was the main intoxicant accounting for 51 percent of drug related deaths (Wiese Simonsen et al., 2010). In a study carried out in Norway into methadone related deaths, methadone was implicated in 85 percent of poisonings, with an average of one death per week over a sixyear period (Bernard et al., 2012). In Scotland in 2011 methadone was a factor along with other drugs in causing 275 deaths – nearly half (47 percent) of the 2011 fatalities and up 58 percent on the 2010 figure of 174 (National Records of Scotland, 2012). Methadone was introduced to help stop drug related deaths, however now it’s increasingly being implicated in many drug related deaths. Illich (1975) referred to this as the iatrogenic effect, where health interventions lead to more widespread health problems.  \nTreatment policy has not achieved what it set out to do. It has not saved lives. It has not reduced crime. It has not got people better.  \n(Gyngell, 2011:14)  \nA Prescribed Dru","cbCaiqGVjlUPtkE2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqGVjlUPtkE2","pdf",94515,16,"English","# Introduction\n# A Prescribed Drug Epidemic\n# In search of grass roots","[{\"question\":\"How does the document describe heroin users and their recognition problem?\",\"answer\":\"It describes heroin users as a stigmatized group on society’s margins, whose struggle for recognition has been largely ignored.\"},{\"question\":\"What critique does the document make of methadone and prescription drug treatment?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that methadone and prescription medications have often failed to improve outcomes, instead increasing stigma and being implicated in drug-related deaths.\"},{\"question\":\"What role is adult education given in the document’s argument?\",\"answer\":\"Adult education is presented as a discourse of resistance and a social movement to create a diverse and just society.\"}]","Awakening to Recovery and Honneth’s Theory of Recognition | PDF",1792065153]