Overcoming Prison and Addiction

Name: Overcoming Prison and Addiction
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ISBN: 9780534599041

ISBN-10: 0534599044

ISBN-13: 9780534599041

Edition: 2003

Authors: Chuck Terry

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An engaging writer, Chuck Terry presents this powerful study on the tremendous obstacles that drug addicts drifting in and out of prison must overcome in order to get clean and "make it" in society. Thoroughly researched and based on sound theory, this text covers how societal reaction to drugs and addiction shape criminal policy and behavior. Terry's powerful voice as a writer brings each of "the fellas" to life as he tells their story on how they became addicts and documents their on going struggle with addiction---both in and out of prison. Terry follows the story of "the fellas" as they beat the odds, get clean, and try to make a better life for themselves. And, he tells the somber…

Book details

List price: $149.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 12/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.33" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Preface


Foreword




Introduction


The Intersection of Addiction and Prisonization


Early Origins of This Study


Identity Transformation as a Means of Overcoming Addiction and Prisonization


Theoretical Backdrop


Characteristics of the Fellas


The Fellas in Context and the Value of Their Story



What Came Before and the Construction of Addict Images


Self-Concepts and Self-Images


Nineteenth-Century Addicts in the United States


1900 Onward


Summary



The Fellas: Early Pathways Toward Addiction and Incarceration


Regulars


Wannabes


Drifters


Summary



Going Deeper: Prisonization


The Fellas' Thoughts on Being Convicts


Race, Gangs and Violence


References to Self



Ways Out: Breaking the Patterns


The Fellas and the Process of Change



Ways Out: Developing New Perspectives


Making the Change


The Twelve-Step Program


New Labels: References to Self in Recovery



Afterthoughts and a Brief Glimpse of the Fellas Three Years Later


Excluded But Not Forgotten


The Fellas: Three Years Later


Self-Concepts and Behavioral Change: A Final Glance


Concluding Thoughts



A Bit More about the Research and Methodology


Bibliography