... as a qualifying disabling health condition for SSI benefits spawned the development of a new disability economy. Despite widely accepted scientific evidence demonstrating the high frequency of mental illness and substance use disorder comorbidity, a new social actor, the “neurocrat,” was constructed to document...

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...—are viewed as appropriate responses on the part of addicted women to experiences of structural vulnerability, social suffering, and housing instability. Women experienced “neurocratic pregnancies,” in which poverty and addiction made mental health diagnosis and treatment both necessary and problematic...