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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 a...
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24 September 2019

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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Pages: 264
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: California Series in Public Anthropology
Publication Date:
24 September 2019
ISBN: 9780520966406
Format: eBook
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
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