The fight has begun over Europe’s big budget increase for science

Not really the conclusion

Dead-End Lives ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447341680.003.0009 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel Briggs ◽

Rubén Monge Gamero

Keyword(s):

Harm Reduction ◽

Current Situation ◽

The Political ◽

The People ◽

Economic Climate ◽

Social Landscape ◽

Advanced Knowledge ◽

Political Economic ◽

Budget Increase ◽

Methodological Reflection

This is the part of the book where we try and tie things together in an effort to be optimistic about how we can improve the current situation for people who arrive in Valdemingómez. It would normally start with a deep methodological reflection about how we have advanced knowledge before discussing how innovative our methods were. We would then discuss the main findings of the book in relation to the theory outlined before making some comments on policy improvements and recommendations so we can avoid such situations of desperate poverty and fatalistic drug use. Perhaps lots of academics do this so they can feel good about their work, or maybe its more about closure on it. Or maybe its more that they feel obliged to write something which will in fact change nothing; like for example, that we need to make more investment in harm reduction. Aside from being really obvious, given the current political and economic climate this is unlikely to happen. Even a significant budget increase to the harm reduction team would be at best be tokenistic and in any case such gestures would anyway obfuscates the real and meaningful change which needs to take place to the political, economic and social landscape so that Valdemingómez and the people in that space do not end up destroying themselves.

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