Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis

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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sue, Kimberly (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA University of California Press [2019]
Series:California Series in Public Anthropology 46
Subjects:
Online Access:UBR01
UBY01
Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages)
ISBN:9780520966406

There is no print copy available.

Interlibrary loan Place Request Caution: Not in THWS collection!