The social life of creative methods: Filmmaking, fabulation and recovery.

In this article we consider the theoretical and methodological implications of Deleuzian fabulation for research on recovery from drugs and alcohol as an alternative way of making and doing methods in sociology. The article draws on data produced as part of an ongoing interdisciplinary research collaboration, begun in 2019, with the visual artist and filmmaker Melanie Manchot, social scientists Nicole Vitellone and Lena Theodoropoulou, and people in recovery from drugs and alcohol engaged in the production of Manchot's first feature film STEPHEN. This project attends to the methodological practice of filmmaking as a way of thinking with and alongside colleagues from divergent disciplines about the role of methods, concepts and practices for confronting and resisting processes of stigmatisation.

Practising recovery: New approaches and directions.

The special section Practising recovery: New approaches and directions aims to shed light on the variety of epistemological, methodological and policy-making practices that emerge in empirical studies of recovery from the use of alcohol and other drugs (AOD). 'Recovery', as a concept and policy orientation, has received significant attention in sociological research and other disciplines. However, recovery understood as a practice that is crafted daily by service-users and workers reveals infinite manifestations that sociological research has yet to explore.

Recovery as a minor practice.

This article investigates the methodological potential of interdisciplinary research to generate collective rather than interpretive or reflective knowledge practices for the study of recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol. The question that informs this investigation of knowledge practices is how researchers participate in knowledge production and the possibility of building alternative interdisciplinary methods that connect experts to treatment services and service-users in new ways. In the first part, we trace and evaluate methodological debates on research methods in academic, professional and treatment service settings.

Connections built and broken: The ontologies of relapse.

'Relapse prevention' has become a familiar concept and practice for those engaged with drug treatment services. The ways that 'relapse prevention' is currently practised and talked about departs primarily from research produced within the discipline of psychology, and especially by researchers and practitioners adopting cognitive behavioural (Marlatt & Donovan, 2005; Witkiewitz & Marlatt, 2009) and neurocognitive approaches (Tapert et al., 2004).