Women on Ice : Methamphetamine Use Among Suburban Women / Miriam Boeri.

By:

Boeri, Miriam

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Critical issues in crime and societyPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 231 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813554617
0813554616

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women on ice.DDC classification:

362.29/952082091733 23

LOC classification:

HV5824.W6 W64 2013eb

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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.

Summary: 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 methamphetamine, the turning points into problematic drug use, and, for a few, their escape from lives veering out of control.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 methamphetamine, the turning points into problematic drug use, and, for a few, their escape from lives veering out of control.