{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.02268760907504363, 'fraction_numerical': 0.0, 'mean_word_length': 5.172043010752688, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
The Rush: Needle Fixation or Technical Materialization?

This paper considers the object of the syringe-in-use for IV drug users. Via an engagement with performative stories of the “rush” I suggest this object experience concerns not a conditioned effect but the materiality of the syringe itself. I also suggest that an analysis of the rush as a technical materialization challenges existing interpretations of heroin use. In particular, it challenges understandings of the syringe as an object that threatens a coherent body image, gender identity, and sexed differences.