Righteous Dopefiend

"Calling this book ethnography would be like calling "The Wire" a cop show: what comes roaring out of its pages is almost as visceral and devastating as spending a night in 'the hole' itself."--Mike Davis, author of "Planet of Slums" "Plunge beneath the surface of America's no-man's lands. Find in the dead-end alleyways, storage lots, and overgrown embankments the terrifying but strangely ordered world of homeless heroin injectors. This book will test your cultural relativism to destruction, but along the way you will learn a great deal about destitution, about homelessness, about addiction, and about violence at all levels. These dopefiends are 'made in America'."--Paul Willis, author of "Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs," and co-founding editor of "Ethnography"