Getting wrecked : women, incarceration, and the American opioid crisis /

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

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sue, Kimberly (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Series:California series in public anthropology.
Subjects:
Women prisoners > Social aspects > Massachusetts.
Opioid abuse > Treatment > Massachusetts.
Prisonnières > Aspect social > Massachusetts.
Toxicomanie aux opiacés > Traitement > Massachusetts.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Opioid abuse > Treatment
Massachusetts
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "It's just part of the game"
  • The beauty shop and the segregation unit
  • Heroin is my counselor
  • Discipline, punish and treat trauma
  • Where medicine is contraband
  • Recovery is my job now
  • Life and death after jail
  • Conclusion : breaking "wicked bad habits."

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