The Guard's Dilemma
Social Roles and Therapeutic Experience for Inpatient-Guards in Tijuana's Community-Based Addiction Treatment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2263877 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ellen E Kozelka (0000-0002-8426-8340, Dartmouth Hospital, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 30-49 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/etho.12326 |
| OpenAlex | W4212847934 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 43 |
Over the past 30 years, Tijuana has witnessed a proliferation of non-biomedical, community-based drug treatment centers. Research on this industry focuses primarily on documenting their spread and describing institutional practices, particularly human rights abuses. However, ethnography attuned to inpatient perspectives shows academic responses (op-eds, articles, policy briefs, etc.) that generalize compulsory, community-based addiction treatment as completely unproductive often obscure inpatients' complicated experiences. I examine daily life and social roles in one all-female 12 Step center along Mexico's northern border to explore the claim by center administrators that inpatients benefit therapeutically from acting simultaneously as guards (inpatient-guards). This ethnography of practice complicates academic discussions of compulsory addiction treatment by examining the labor the inpatient-guards provide and the meanings they ascribe to it, revealing the complexity of therapeutic experience and a path for global mental health to better understand community care
Addiction · Addiction treatment · Criminology · Dilemma · Ethnography · Guard (computer science) · Health care · Inpatient care · Mental health · Political science · Psychiatry · Sociology · Therapeutic community · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Medicine · Psychology
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