Don't Count Me Out : : A Baltimore Dope Fiend's Miraculous Recovery / / Rafael Alvarez.

Don't Count Me Out chronicles the life of Bruce White from the beginning of his drug use in elementary school through criminal acts fueled by his need for drugs, to his miraculous recovery three decades later and involvement in the treatment of addicts, where he is now a leader in the rehabilit...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 19 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: Anybody Can
  • 1 The Most Interesting Book the Old Man Had Ever Read
  • 2 Birth / School: Before It Got Ugly
  • 3 Skipping Stones / Getting Stoned: Grade School
  • 4 Failing the Seventh Grade
  • 5 Ninth Grade in the Psych Ward (Until They Threw Him Out)
  • 6 Last Chance High: The Baltimore Experimental High School
  • 7 Spanish Harlem: There Could Have Been Blood
  • 8 Big Fucking Indian
  • 9 Bonnie and Clyde
  • 10 Shootout on Ready
  • 11 The Stolen Carpet and the Fat Girl: State of Maryland Inmate No. 215–799, March 1991 to August 1994
  • 12 Misadventure En Route to the Underworld: 1995 through 1998
  • 13 Frank White / Inmate Junkie
  • 14 Free to Go
  • 15 Third Time a Charm
  • 16 College / Career / Shirt and Tie
  • 17 One Promise
  • 18 The D Train
  • Epilogue: A Day in His Best Life, Thanksgiving Weekend 2020
  • Acknowledgments