The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande PDF
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The Pastoral Clinic a U T H O RS I M P R I NT Dedicated to discovering and sharing knowledge and creative vision, authors and scholars have endowed this imprint to perpetuate scholarship of the highest caliber Scholarship is to be created ... by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. –Ralph Waldo Emerson The Pastoral Clinic addiction and dispossession along the rio grande angela garcia university of california press Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www .ucpress .edu . University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, En gland © 2010 by Angela Garcia Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Garcia, Angela, 1971– The pastoral clinic : addiction and dispossession along the Rio Grande / Angela Garcia. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn978-0-520-25829-7 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn978-0-520-26208-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Heroin abuse—New Mexico. 2. Drug addicts—New Mexico. I. Title. hv5822.h4g37 2010 362.29'3092368078952—dc22 2010001811 Manufactured in the United States of America 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is printed on Cascades Enviro 100, a 100% post consumer waste, recycled, de- inked fiber. FSC recycled certified and pro cessed chlorine free. It is acid free, Ecologo certified, and manufactured by BioGas energy. Para Ruby y Lucía This page intentionally left blank Memory aches, wherever it is touched. Giorgios Seferis This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Graveyard 37 2. The Elegiac Addict 69 3. Blood Relative 111 4. Suicide as a Form of Life 150 5. Experiments with Care 183 Conclusion: A New Season 205 Notes 211 Bibliography 223 Index 237
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