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      Making sense of the transition from the Detroit streets to drug treatment.

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          In this article we consider the process of adjustment from active street sex work to life in structured substance abuse treatment among Detroit-area women who participated in a semicoercive program administered through a drug court. We examine this transition in terms of changes in daily routines and social networks, drawing on extensive qualitative data to illuminate the ways in which women defined their own situations. Using concepts from Bourdieu and Latour as analytical aids, we analyze the role of daily routines, environments, and networks in producing the shifts in identity that those who embraced the goals of recovery demonstrated. We conclude with a discussion of how the restrictive environments and redundant situations experienced by women in treatment could be paradoxically embraced as a means to achieve expanded opportunity and enhanced individual responsibility because women effectively reassembled their social networks and identities to align with the goals of recovery.

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          Journal
          Qual Health Res
          Qualitative health research
          SAGE Publications
          1049-7323
          1049-7323
          Feb 2015
          : 25
          : 2
          Affiliations
          [1 ] University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan, USA draus@umd.umich.edu.
          [2 ] University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan, USA.
          [3 ] City of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
          Article
          1049732314552454
          10.1177/1049732314552454
          25246332
          2a792f43-f893-46e7-ae8f-97cdda929933
          History

          addiction / substance use,sex workers,research, interdisciplinary,behavior change,marginalized populations

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