After decades of the American ""war on drugs"" and relentless prison expansion, political officials are finally challenging mass incarceration. Many point to an apparently promising solution to reduce the prison population: addiction treatment. In Addicted to Rehab, Allison McKim gives an in-depth and innovative ethnographic account of two such rehab programs for women.

Introduction: Rehab Is the New Black
1 Intake: Pathways to Treatment
2 Addicted to Punishment
3 Habilitating Broken Women
4 A Haven for the Chemically Dependent
5 Learning to Live Sober
6 Conclusion
Methodological Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
 

ALLISON McKIM is an assistant professor of sociology at Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York.