Fast lives : women who use crack cocaine

Fast lives : women who use crack cocaine / Claire E. Sterk.

An in-depth look at the lives, struggles, and dilemmas of women who use crack cocaine.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sterk, Claire E., 1957-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©1999.
Subjects:	Women > Drug use > United States. Crack (Drug) > United States. Women > United States > Social conditions. Cocaine abuse. Women. women (female humans) SELF-HELP > Substance Abuse & Addictions > General. PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Addiction. SOCIAL SCIENCE > General. Women Cocaine abuse Crack (Drug) Women > Drug use Women > Social conditions Drogenkonsum Crack Frau United States USA
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Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Getting Into Drugs; 2 Patterns of Income Generation and Drug Use; 3 Significant Others: The Women's Steady Partners; 4 Reproduction and Motherhood; 5 Off and On: Experiences with Drug Treatment; 6 Female Drug Users and the AIDS Epidemic; 7 Violent Encounters; 8 Past Experiences, Future Aspirations and Policies; Notes; Bibliography; Index.