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

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Sue, Kimberly [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: California series in public anthropologyPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (xv, 241 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0520966406
9780520966406

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Getting wrecked.DDC classification:

365/.6672908209744 23

LOC classification:

HV8738 .S835 2019

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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."

Summary: "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 epidemic, this book examines how prisons and jails have attempted concurrent programs of punishment and treatment to deal with inmates struggling with a diagnosis of substance use disorder. An addiction physician and a medical anthropologist, Kimberly Sue powerfully illustrates the impacts of incarceration on women's lives as they seek well-being and better health while confronting lives marked by structural violence, gender inequity, and ongoing trauma"--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 epidemic, this book examines how prisons and jails have attempted concurrent programs of punishment and treatment to deal with inmates struggling with a diagnosis of substance use disorder. An addiction physician and a medical anthropologist, Kimberly Sue powerfully illustrates the impacts of incarceration on women's lives as they seek well-being and better health while confronting lives marked by structural violence, gender inequity, and ongoing trauma"--Provided by publisher.

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