Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self

Sanaullah Khan

doi:10.5771/9781666929102

Summary

The book explores the interrelation between carceral conditions and substance use by considering the intersections between drug markets, sidewalks, households, and prisons in Baltimore. Sanaullah Khan argues that while housing, medicalization, and incarceration fundamentally create the conditions for substance use, individuals are increasingly experiencing the paradoxes of care and punishment by being propelled into a new regime of recovery which creates new pharmaceuticalized identities. By shedding light on how addiction and the impetus for healing moves through families and institutions of the state, Khan provides an account of the different competing forces that shape substance use, recovery, and relapse. Through a combination of archival research and ethnography, the book makes a case for disentangling punishment from recovery.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-2909-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-2910-2
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 214
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. List of Abbreviations No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 32
Chapter 1: Public Health and Discipline No access Pages 33 - 64
Chapter 2: Carceral Obligations and the Prison of the Mind No access Pages 65 - 86
Chapter 3: Courts, Drug Treatment Programs, and the Re-making of Family No access Pages 87 - 106
Chapter 4: Medicalizing Homelessness No access Pages 107 - 132
Chapter 5: Treatment Centers and the Drug Market No access Pages 133 - 160
Chapter 6: Substance Use, Discipline, and Household Disorders No access Pages 161 - 182
Conclusion No access Pages 183 - 192
Bibliography No access Pages 193 - 208
Index No access Pages 209 - 212
About the Author No access Pages 213 - 214