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Crack Cocaine Users - High Society and Low Life in South London (Paperback)
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Crack Cocaine Users - High Society and Low Life in South London (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
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Crack cocaine users have significant health problems, and place a
significant burden on social services, the criminal justice system
and drug treatment agencies. Among policymakers, professionals and
the wider section of society, they are the most poorly understood
drug-using group and have the worst retention rate in prison drug
programmes and community drug agencies. This book is about their
addictions and the realities of their lives. Based on ethnographic
research (observation and interviewing) conducted in south London,
it aims to highlight their day-to-day struggles as they attempt to
survive in a violent and intimidating street drug scene while
trying to make changes to their lives. The book unpacks the myths
and stigma of their drug use, highlighting their fragile position
in society in an effort to better understand them. With the help of
several key characters, the book uses their words and experiences
to take the reader on a journey through their crack addiction from
a life in and out of crack houses, their experiences with law
enforcement and welfare agencies to their life aspirations. The
findings have important policy implications, and are relevant and
accessible to academics and students in the field of criminology,
sociology, psychology, and research methods. The research is
equally relevant for central and local government policymakers, and
frontline healthcare and drug agency staff.
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