"Surviving Heroin" will be indispensable for addiction and women's studies scholars and for drug treatment practitioners, social workers, and other advocates for women's health.

This rich ethnographic account of the experiences of 37 women who use methadone--heroin survivors whose lives continue to be controlled by methadone and by the clinics that dispense it--concentrates on women in Florida who grew up during the 1950s and 1960s. The authors

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