Shooting Dope: Career Patterns of Hard-Core Heroin Users (American Social Problems)

By Charles E. Faupel

Want ads won't list it; minimum wage and the mommy-track are irrelevant. Yet, Faupel maintains, hard-core heroin use is a career much like any conventional occupation. In both cases, certain activities are valued more than others, ethics govern the workplace, entrepreneurial skills are rewarded, and turning points mark the career path.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813010705
• ISBN13: 9780813010700
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.3"