Getting Wrecked
Subtitle: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Sep 24, 2019
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780520293212
Description: "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.
Notes: Source title: Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis (Volume 46) (California Series in Public Anthropology)