Nahid Rahimipour Anaraki is a postdoctoral fellow at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. She has published several articles in the areas of sociology, criminology, and health sciences.
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In women's prison wards, male treatment centers, and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings, Anaraki examines the lived experiences and conflicting identities of those who use or have used illicit substances. Recommended.-- "Choice" An extraordinary ethnographic exploration of addiction and prison life in Iran, which also gives voice to female drug users' narratives, adding an important gendered perspective to the literature on drug use in Iran.-- "Janne Bjerre Christensen, author of Drugs, Deviancy and Democracy in Iran: The Interaction of State and Civil Society" Echoing everyday voices gathered through hard-to-reach field sites, this study stands out for its engagement with social settings hitherto left out of scholarly analysis: the rehab center, the prison, the self-help group. This is an important addition to the social sciences of contemporary Iran and to the interdisciplinary studies of drugs.-- "Maziyar Ghiabi, author of Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran" In its argument that medicalization all too often means criminalization, Anaraki's study is a valuable addition to our understanding of Iran's drug problem.-- "Rudolph Matthee, University of Delaware" The author has gained unprecedented access to prisoners and formerly incarcerated individuals in Iran, as well as recovering drug addicts. . . . This is an important book.-- "Pardis Mahdavi, provost at the University of Montana"