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

Posted By: roxul
Date: 7 Jan 2024 03:07:59
Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self

Sanaullah Khan, "Carceral Recovery: Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self"
English | ISBN: 1666929093 | 2023 | 228 pages | EPUB, PDF | 674 KB + 2 MB

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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