Women on Ice: Methamphetamine Use among Suburban Women

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures And Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Methamphetamine: The Perfect Drug For Suburban Women -- 2. Ethnographic Research: Exploring Methamphetamine Use In The Suburbs -- 3. The Gendered Drug Career: Initiation And Progression In Methamphetamine Use -- 4.Gendered Lives: Combining Work And Family With Drug-Using Roles -- 5. Gendered Risks: Health And Infectious Diseases -- 6. Gendered Risks: Violence And Crime -- 7. The Revolving Door: Treatment, Recovery, And Relapse -- 8. Policy Implications -- Appendix A. Methodological Process -- Appendix B. The Drug Career Typology -- References -- Index -- About The Author

This book explores the lives of women who use methamphetamine (ice, speed, crystal, shards) and the effects of its use on their families. In-depth interviews with women in the suburban counties of one of the largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. chronicle the details of their initiation into methamphetamine, the turning points into problematic drug use, and, for a few, their escape from lives veering out of control

Women on Ice is the first book to study exclusively the lives of women who use methamphetamine (ice, speed, crystal, shards) and the effects of its use on their families. In-depth interviews with women in the suburban counties of one of the largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. chronicle the details of their initiation into methamphetamine, the turning points into problematic drug use, and, for a few, their escape from lives veering out of control