Children tend to be represented as the quintessential victims of the ‘drug problem’, with drug-using parents, particularly mothers, characterised as vectors of the risks posed. Although evidence of drug use is not per se an impediment to retaining care of, or contact with, children (per Lady Hale in Re B [2013] UKSC 33, at para. 143), it does pose one of the greatest challenges to social and political norms about ‘good parenting’, and often has a powerful impact on decisions about care within UK family courts. While there is a considerable body of scholarship assessing criminal justice responses to drug use, there has been little research into how the family serves as an important site for the constitution of drug harms and the making of ‘drugs’ and ‘addiction’. This paper is informed by qualitative analysis of approximately 150 case reports in which drug use has been cited as relevant in the determination of guardianship/parenting. The purpose will not be to contest the difficult decisions that judges had to make in these cases but, using perspectives rooted in Science and Technology Studies and feminist drug scholarship, to remain attendant to the ontological multiplicity of objects that emerge from attempts to stabilise drug harms in legal narratives.

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药物滥用和养育子女：在家庭法庭上制造毒品和性别

儿童往往被描述为“毒品问题”的典型受害者，吸毒的父母，尤其是母亲，被描述为所带来风险的载体。尽管吸毒证据本身并不妨碍继续照顾儿童或与儿童接触（根据黑尔夫人在再乙[2013] UKSC 33，第 3 段。143），它确实对关于“良好育儿”的社会和政治规范构成了最大的挑战之一，并且通常对英国家庭法庭关于护理的决定产生强大的影响。虽然有相当多的学术研究评估了对吸毒的刑事司法反应，但很少有关于家庭如何成为构成毒品危害以及制造“毒品”和“成瘾”的重要场所的研究。本文通过对大约 150 份案例报告的定性分析得出结论，在这些案例报告中，吸毒被认为与确定监护权/养育子女有关。目的不是质疑法官在这些案件中必须做出的艰难决定，而是利用植根于科学技术研究和女权主义药物学术的观点，