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Can I read Border Junkies: Addiction and Survival on the Streets of Juárez and El Paso (Inter-american Series) on EtoBox?
Border Junkies: Addiction and Survival on the Streets of Juárez and El Paso (Inter-american Series) by Scott Comar is a psychology available to read on EtoBox.
What is Border Junkies: Addiction and Survival on the Streets of Juárez and El Paso (Inter-american Series) about?
The drug war that has turned Juárez, Mexico, into a killing field that has claimed more than 7,000 lives since 2008 captures headlines almost daily. But few accounts go all the way down to the streets to investigate the lives of individual drug users. One of those users, Scott Comar, survived years of heroin addiction and failed attempts at detox and finally cleaned up in 2003. Now a graduate student at the University of Texas at El Paso in the history department's borderlands doctoral program,
Who reads Border Junkies: Addiction and Survival on the Streets of Juárez and El Paso (Inter-american Series)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Scott Comar
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780292726833
- Category
- psychology
- Subjects
- Memoir, Social Science, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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