Getting Wrecked

Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis

Kimberly Sue (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2019
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29320-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	17.09.2019
Reihe/Serie	California Series in Public Anthropology ; 46
Zusatzinfo	7 b-w photographs and 1 line illustration
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-520-29320-7 / 0520293207
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29320-5 / 9780520293205
Zustand	Neuware