Getting Wrecked

Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis

AvKimberly Sue

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2019-09-24
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:California Series in Public Anthropology
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520293205

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Kimberly Sue, MD, PhD, is the Medical Director at Harm Reduction Coalition, a national nonprofit organization working to improve the lives and health of people who use drugs. She completed her studies at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Anthropology at Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and completed her medical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in internal medicine, with a focus on primary care and addiction. She also sees patients at the Rikers Island jail system in New York.

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"In this volume [Sue] offers an eye-opening account of the gendered dimensions of the 'War on Drugs.'—Highly recommended"

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAuthor’s Note1 Introduction: “It’s Just Part of the Game”2 The Beauty Shop and the Segregation Unit3 Heroin Is My Counselor4 Discipline, Punish, and Treat Trauma?5 Where Medicine Is Contraband6 Recovery Is My Job Now7 Life and Death after Jail8 Conclusion: Breaking “Wicked Bad Habits”NotesReferencesIndex