Carceral Recovery

Prisons, Drug Markets, and the New Pharmaceutical Self

Sanaullah Khan

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Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
03 October 2023

Poverty & unemployment; Homelessness; Crime & criminology; Drugs trade & trafficking; Laws of Specific jurisdictions

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 and forging new pharmaceutical selves. 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 and competing forces around substance use, recovery, and relapse. Through a combination of archival research and ethnography, the book makes a case for disentangling recovery from punishment.

By: Sanaullah Khan
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 239mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 531g
ISBN: 9781666929096
ISBN 10: 1666929093
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 03 October 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Public Health and Discipline Chapter 2: Carceral Obligations and The Prison of The Mind Chapter 3: Courts, Drug Treatment Programs and the Re-making of Family Chapter 4: Medicalizing Homelessness Chapter 5: Treatment Centers and the Drug Market Chapter 6: Substance Use, Discipline and Household Disorders Conclusion: From Ethnography to Practice Bibliography About the Author

Sanaullah Khan is medical and psychiatric anthropologist.

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

"In this deeply engaging, on-the-ground account of drug abuse in Baltimore, Sanaullah Khan closely examines and brings to life the vagaries of street life, the burdens of imprisonment, the inadequacies of drug treatment, and the failure and punitive nature of much drug policy in the city he grew to love and mourn for. All of this is neatly captured in his sentence: ""Baltimore became home but was also my disappointment with the promise of American dream."" Beginning with the police shooting of Freddie Gray, a man police saw narrowly as a criminal street drug dealer, and ending with the transition from ethnography to application, this book is a valuable and thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of drug abuse in Baltimore and beyond as well as a call to action.--Merrill Singer, University of Connecticut"