Breaking the Code: Strategies of Alcohol Addicts

The article addresses the problems related to alcohol abuse and its medical treatment called ‘coding’. The treatment by ‘coding’ subjugates alcoholics to a relationship between them and other more dominant agents. Despite such pressure being very powerful, we argue that alcoholics develop their stra...

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Published inFolklore (Tartu, Estonia) Vol. 61; no. 61; pp. 11 - 26
Main Authors Sleptsov, Platon, Argounova-Low, Tatiana
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Estonian Literary Museum 29.08.2015
Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum
Subjects
Customs / Folklore
alcohol
Sakha (Yakutia)
coding
alcoholism
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ISSN1406-0957
1406-0949
DOI10.7592/FEJF2015.61.argounova-low_sleptsov

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Summary:The article addresses the problems related to alcohol abuse and its medical treatment called ‘coding’. The treatment by ‘coding’ subjugates alcoholics to a relationship between them and other more dominant agents. Despite such pressure being very powerful, we argue that alcoholics develop their strategies and ways to manoeuvre and manipulate these dominant relationships. The article explains why treatment by coding is often ineffective.
ISSN:1406-0957
1406-0949
DOI:10.7592/FEJF2015.61.argounova-low_sleptsov