Border Junkies: Addiction and Survival on the Streets of Juárez and El Paso (Inter-America (Paperback))
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (895 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 029272683X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 246 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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keith said bkb. This is a very injoyable book. I think it is very colorful story of the underground life in Juarez, giving you a true veiw of addiction and not to overly churchy recovery preaching, its honest on how the call of addiction calling you back. I would say the color of this story comes from the peaple, the $50.00 rooms with cold showers & out houses, food carts with tacos ect, even the prison to the police will surprize and intertain you. I wish ther. sef sef AWESOME AWESOME BOOK!!! First i want to say that I've been reading many books on addiction lately trying to understand addiction in all its forms. I am a very close friend with a heroin addict active in recovery. I am reading not only because of this but because I feel a better understanding of addiction is something we all need as human beings. Second this book caught my attention because I myself lived in Juarez in roughly the same time frame . Laura B. Morrick Dunlap said Border Junkie. This is a story of a man who hit bottom, the real bottom, more so than any other I have ever read of. It is a miracle he is still alive!
"Border Junkies is a substantial entry into the developing catalog of literature about people who live in border towns and cities, as it shows one man's struggle to negotiate thecultural dynamics of the region while providing the reader with a sociological picture of that same region." - Journal of American Culture
candidate in anthropology. . After recovering from addiction, he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Texas at El Paso, where he currently is a Ph.D. Scott Comar has held a variety of jobs, including construction laborer, furniture mover, and long distance truck driver
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. 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. One of those users, Scott Comar, survived years of heroin addiction and failed attempts at detox and finally cleaned up in 2003. 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.. 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, an