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Author Sterk, Claire E., 1957-

Title Fast lives : women who use crack cocaine / Claire E. Sterk
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 242 pages)
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
Summary An in-depth look at the lives, struggles, and dilemmas of women who use crack cocaine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women -- Drug use -- United States
Crack (Drug) -- United States
Women -- United States -- Social conditions
Cocaine abuse.
Women.
Cocaine-Related Disorders
Crack Cocaine
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
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
USA
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585370184
9780585370187
9781592138074
1592138071