Surviving Heroin: Interviews with Women in Methadone Clinics
by Jennifer Friedman, Marixsa Alicea
Category: Medical

Surviving Heroin is designed to be of use to addiction and women's studies scholars and to drug treatment practitioners, social workers and other advocates for women's health. This ethnographic account of the experiences of 37 women who use methadone - heroin survivors whose lives continue to be controlled by methadone and by the clinics that dispense it - concentrates on women in Florida who grew up during the 1950s and 1960s. The authors explore the intersection of drug use and race, class and gender oppression.