Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk: An Ethnography of a Drug Abuse Treatment Facility

Walk the Walk and Talk the Talk: An Ethnography of a Drug Abuse Treatment Facility

As a counselor for more than two years at a residential drug abuse treatment facility, Geoffrey Skoll observed the many contradictions between the public image of the institution as a center for therapy and the actual day-to-day practices that went on inside. In this case study, he argues that the facility forces its residents to “walk the walk and talk the talk” by compelling them to subscribe to its rules and ideology, which emphasize the need to conform to the image of a dope fiend in order t

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