Women on Ice : Methamphetamine Use Among Suburban Women /

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This book explores the lives of women who use methamphetamine (ice, speed, crystal, shards) and the effects of its use on their families. In-depth interviews with women in the suburban counties of one of the largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. chronicle the details of their initiation into metham...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boeri, Miriam
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Drug use.
Women drug addicts.
Methamphetamine abuse.
Drug addiction > Treatment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SELF-HELP > Substance Abuse & Addictions > Drug Dependence.
Toxicomanie > Traitement.
Femmes toxicomanes.
Methamphetamine > Abus.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Methamphetamine : the perfect drug for suburban women
  • Ethnographic research : exploring methamphetamine use in the suburbs
  • The gendered drug career : initiation and progression in methamphetamine use
  • Gendered lives : combining work and family with drug-using roles
  • Gendered risks : health and infectious diseases
  • Gendered risks : violence and crime
  • The revolving door : treatment, recovery, and relapse
  • Policy implications.

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