Women on Ice : Methamphetamine Use Among Suburban Women /
This book explores the lives of women who use methamphetamine (ice, speed, crystal, shards) and the effects of its use on their families. In-depth interviews with women in the suburban counties of one of the largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. chronicle the details of their initiation into metham...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[2013]
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| Colecção: | Critical issues in crime and society.
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| Acesso em linha: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=520125 |
Sumário:
- Methamphetamine : the perfect drug for suburban women
- Ethnographic research : exploring methamphetamine use in the suburbs
- The gendered drug career : initiation and progression in methamphetamine use
- Gendered lives : combining work and family with drug-using roles
- Gendered risks : health and infectious diseases
- Gendered risks : violence and crime
- The revolving door : treatment, recovery, and relapse
- Policy implications.