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In a luminous narrative, Angela Garcia chronicles the lives of several Hispanic addicts, introducing us to the intimate, physical, and institutional dependencies in which they are entangled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe discover how history pervades this region that has endured centuries of social inequality, drug and alcohol abuse, and material and cultural dispossession. 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The prizewinning anthropologist Angela Garcia takes us deep into the world of these small rooms, informal treatment centres for alcoholism, addiction, and mental illness, spread across Mexico City's tenements and reaching into the United States. Run and inhabited by Mexico's most marginalised populations, they are controversial for their illegality and their use of coercion. Yet for many Mexican families desperate to keep their loved ones safe, these rooms offer a refuge from the intensifying violence surrounding the drug war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book ever written on the anexos. Garcia, who spent a decade conducting anthropological fieldwork in Mexico City, draws readers into their many dimensions, casting light on the mothers and their children entangled in this hidden world. Following the stories of its denizens, she asks what these places are, why they exist, and what they reflect about Mexico and the wider world. With extraordinary empathy and a sharp eye for detail, Garcia attends to the lives that the anexos both sustain and erode, wrestling with the question of why mothers turn to them as a site of refuge even as they reproduce violence. 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