Getting wrecked : women, incarceration, and the American opioid crisis / Kimberly Sue.

By:

Sue, Kimberly [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520966406

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HV8738 .G488 2019

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Contents:

The beauty shop and the segregation unit -- Heroin is my counselor -- Discipline, punish and treat trauma -- Where medicine is contraband -- Recovery is my job now -- Life and death after jail -- Conclusion : breaking "wicked bad habits".

Subject: "Getting Wrecked provides a rich ethnographic account of women battling addiction as they cycle through jail, prison, and community treatment programs in Massachusetts. Since 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 a 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"--Provided by publisher.

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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	HV8738 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1096214863

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : "It's just part of the game" -- The beauty shop and the segregation unit -- Heroin is my counselor -- Discipline, punish and treat trauma -- Where medicine is contraband -- Recovery is my job now -- Life and death after jail -- Conclusion : breaking "wicked bad habits".

"Getting Wrecked provides a rich ethnographic account of women battling addiction as they cycle through jail, prison, and community treatment programs in Massachusetts. Since 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 a 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"--Provided by publisher.

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