Righteous Dopefiend: Volume 21

by Jeff Schonberg, Philippe Bourgois, Jeffrey Schonberg

Book Overview

This powerful work of gonzo journalism, predating the widespread acknowledgement of the opioid epidemic as such, immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug and alcohol abuse in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers in the San Francisco drug scene, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520254988
• ISBN13: 9780520254985
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 2.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 9.4"