Overcoming Prison and Addiction

by Terry, Chuck

• ISBN13: 9780534599041
• ISBN10: 0534599044
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-17
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

An engaging writer, Chuck Terry presents this powerful study on the tremendous obstacles that drug addicts drifting in and out of prison must overcome in order to get clean and make it in society. Thoroughly researched and based on sound theory, this text covers how societal reaction to drugs and addiction shape criminal policy and behavior. Terry's powerful voice as a writer brings each of the fellas to life as he tells their story on how they became addicts and documents their on going struggle with addiction---both in and out of prison. Terry follows the story of the fellas as they beat the odds, get clean, and try to make a better life for themselves. And, he tells the somber story of those who are not able to overcome the obstacles of drugs and prison.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Foreword	viii
John Irwin
Introduction	1	(17)
The Intersection of Addiction and Prisonization	3	(4)
Early Origins of This Study	7	(1)
Identity Transformation as a Means of Overcoming Addiction and Prisonization	8	(3)
Theoretical Backdrop	11	(3)
Characteristics of the Fellas	14	(1)
The Fellas in Context and the Value of Their Story	15	(3)
What Came Before and the Construction of Addict Images	18	(18)
Self-Concepts and Self-Images	19	(1)
Nineteenth-Century Addicts in the United States	19	(4)
1900 Onward	23	(11)
Summary	34	(2)
The Fellas: Early Pathways Toward Addiction and Incarceration	36	(26)
Regulars	37	(8)
Wannabes	45	(5)
Drifters	50	(10)
Summary	60	(2)
Going Deeper: Prisonization	62	(16)
The Fellas' Thoughts on Being Convicts	67	(1)
Race, Gangs and Violence	68	(4)
References to Self	72	(6)
Ways Out: Breaking the Patterns	78	(17)
The Fellas and the Process of Change	81	(14)
Ways Out: Developing New Perspectives	95	(18)
Making the Change	96	(3)
The Twelve-Step Program	99	(10)
New Labels: References to Self in Recovery	109	(4)
Afterthoughts and a Brief Glimpse of the Fellas Three Years Later	113	(10)
Excluded But Not Forgotten	113	(2)
The Fellas: Three Years Later	115	(3)
Self-Concepts and Behavioral Change: A Final Glance	118	(3)
Concluding Thoughts	121	(2)
Appendix: A Bit More About the Research and Methodology	123	(6)
Bibliography	129