Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk: An Ethnography of a Drug Abuse Treatment Facility

By Geoffrey R. Skoll

Argues that the drug abuse treatment facility forces its residents to 'walk the walk and talk the talk' by compelling them to subscribe to its rules and ideology, which emphasize the need to conform to the image of a dope fiend in order to show 'progress' in treatment.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877229171
• ISBN13: 9780877229179
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 6.0"