This paper provides an overview of disability and addiction and a detailed analysis of their discourses, including those informed by social justice and harm reduction perspectives. It suggests a phenomenological critique of these literatures and then offers some thoughts on how a phenomenological perspective may inform a different and perhaps, more egalitarian understanding of addictive behaviours and how our responses may be altered of we acknowledge and incorporate the lifeworlds of those currently labeled “addicts.” The paper has been published in the Polish Journal of Disability and Rehabilitation, No. 4 (2019), pp. 40-52.
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