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Getting Wrecked

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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 ...
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  • 24 September 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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Price: $34.95
Pages: 264
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: California Series in Public Anthropology
Publication Date: 24 September 2019
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520293212
Format: Paperback
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"In this volume [Sue] offers an eye-opening account of the gendered dimensions of the 'War on Drugs.'—Highly recommended"
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.
 
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note

1 Introduction: “It’s Just Part of the Game”
2 The Beauty Shop and the Segregation Unit
3 Heroin Is My Counselor
4 Discipline, Punish, and Treat Trauma?
5 Where Medicine Is Contraband
6 Recovery Is My Job Now
7 Life and Death after Jail
8 Conclusion: Breaking “Wicked Bad Habits”

Notes
References
Index