Getting Wrecked : Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis /

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Getting Wrecked provides a rich ethnographic account of women battling addiction as they cycle through jail, prison, and community treatment programs in Massachusetts. As incarceration has become a predominant American social policy for managing the problem of drug use, including the opioid epidemic...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sue, Kimberly (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]
Colección:California Series in Public Anthropology ; 46
Temas:
Opioid abuse > Treatment > Massachusetts.
Women prisoners > Social aspects > Massachusetts.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
addiction.
crime and punishment.
drug addiction.
drug treatment.
drug use.
ethnographic.
ethnography.
gender inequality.
healing.
incarceration.
jail.
justice system.
justice.
law and order.
legal issues.
locked up.
massachusetts.
medical anthropology.
opioid epidemic.
opioids.
prison system.
punishment.
recovery.
social policy.
structural violence.
substance abuse disorder.
substance abuse.
treatment programs.
women behind bars.
women in prison.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Author's Note
  • 1. Introduction: "It's Just Part of the Game"
  • 2. The Beauty Shop and the Segregation Unit
  • 3. Heroin Is My Counselor
  • 4. Discipline, Punish, and Treat Trauma?
  • 5. Where Medicine Is Contraband
  • 6. Recovery Is My Job Now
  • 7. Life and Death after Jail
  • 8. Conclusion: Breaking "Wicked Bad Habits"
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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