TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sue,Kimberly
TI  - Getting wrecked: women, incarceration, and the American opioid crisis 
T2  - California Series in Public Anthropology
SN  - 9780520966406
AV  - HV8738 .G488 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Women prisoners
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Opioid abuse
KW  - Treatment
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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"; 2; b
N2  - "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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