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024 7 _a10.7560/726581
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780292735378
035 _a(DE-B1597)586891
035 _a(OCoLC)1280942658
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082 0 4 _a363.293092
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aComar, Scott
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBorder Junkies :
_bAddiction and Survival on the Streets of Juárez and El Paso /
_cScott Comar.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2011]
264 4 _c2011
300 _a1 online resource (246 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aInter-America Series
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tForeword --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tOne. Viajes --
_tTwo. Arrivals --
_tThree. Down and Out --
_tFour. Assimilations --
_tFive. La Navidad --
_tSix. New Millennium --
_tSeven. Insanity Repeats Itself --
_tEight. Migrations --
_tNine. Vigilance --
_tTen. Endings and Beginnings --
_tConclusion --
_tEpilogue
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aThe drug war that has turned Juárez, Mexico, into a killing field that has claimed more than 7,000 lives since 2008 captures headlines almost daily. But few accounts go all the way down to the streets to investigate the lives of individual drug users. One of those users, Scott Comar, survived years of heroin addiction and failed attempts at detox and finally cleaned up in 2003. Now a graduate student at the University of Texas at El Paso in the history department's borderlands doctoral program, Comar has written Border Junkies, a searingly honest account of his spiraling descent into heroin addiction, surrender, change, and recovery on the U.S.-Mexico border. Border Junkies is the first book ever written about the lifestyle of active addiction on the streets of Juárez. Comar vividly describes living between the disparate Mexican and American cultures and among the fellow junkies, drug dealers, hookers, coyote smugglers, thieves, and killers who were his friends and neighbors in addiction—and the social workers, missionaries, shelter workers, and doctors who tried to help him escape. With the perspective of his anthropological training, he shows how homelessness, poverty, and addiction all fuel the use of narcotics and the rise in their consumption on the streets of Juárez and contribute to the societal decay of this Mexican urban landscape. Comar also offers significant insights into the U.S.-Mexico borderland's underground and peripheral economy and the ways in which the region's inhabitants adapt to the local economic terrain.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
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700 1 _aCampbell, Howard
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/726581
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292735378
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