Carceral Recovery

Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self

AvSanaullah Khan

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Care, punishment, and recovery have become deeply entangled in contemporary responses to addiction.Sanaullah Khan examines the interrelation between carceral conditions and substance use by tracing how drug markets, sidewalks, households, and prisons intersect in Baltimore. Khan argues that housing policy, medicalization, and incarceration fundamentally shape the conditions of substance use, even as individuals are increasingly drawn into a paradoxical regime that combines care and punishment through recovery-oriented interventions. This regime produces new pharmaceuticalized identities while often reproducing the very vulnerabilities it claims to address. By illuminating how addiction, care, and the drive for healing circulate through families and state institutions, Khan reveals the competing forces that structure substance use, recovery, and relapse. Drawing on archival research and ethnography, the book ultimately makes a compelling case for disentangling recovery from punishment—showing why meaningful care requires rethinking the carceral logics that continue to govern drug and addiction policies.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-08-20
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:228
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666929119

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Sanaullah Khan is Assistant Professor in Medical Anthropology at the City University of New York’s Hunter College.

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In this deeply engaging, on-the-ground account of drug abuse in Baltimore, Sanaullah Khan closely examines and brings to life the vagaries of street life, the burdens of imprisonment, the inadequacies of drug treatment, and the failure and punitive nature of much drug policy in the city he grew to love and mourn for. All of this is neatly captured in his sentence: “Baltimore became home but was also my disappointment with the promise of American dream.” Beginning with the police shooting of Freddie Gray, a man police saw narrowly as a criminal street drug dealer, and ending with the transition from ethnography to application, this book is a valuable and thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of drug abuse in Baltimore and beyond as well as a call to action.

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List of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1: Public Health and DisciplineChapter 2: Carceral Obligations and The Prison of The MindChapter 3: Courts, Drug Treatment Programs and the Re-making of FamilyChapter 4: Medicalizing HomelessnessChapter 5: Treatment Centers and the Drug MarketChapter 6: Substance Use, Discipline and Household DisordersConclusion: From Ethnography to PracticeBibliographyIndexAbout the Author