Getting Wrecked : Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis Hardback
by Kimberly Sue
Part of the California Series in Public Anthropology series
Hardback
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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, 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 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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, 7 b-w photographs and 1 line illustration
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:24/09/2019
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- ISBN:9780520293205
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, 7 b-w photographs and 1 line illustration
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:24/09/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520293205
