The Pastoral Clinic

The journey to the El rio river had negative effects to John’s life since he found himself doing drugs. While at the river, John and the author, saw some syringes which had been earlier on used for heroine intoxication. This led to the arrest of John after he discharged himself without the advice of the staff members from the intoxication clinic (Garcia, 2010). The next morning, John was arrested at the Espanola Dairy Queen where he had been sleeping in his car, which had been parked besides garbage bins. After three months, John was sentenced for a three year jail term at New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe.

What if John had not visited the river, would he have escaped from the clinic?

Garcia, Angela. 2010. The pastoral clinic: addiction and dispossession along the Rio Grande. Berkeley: University of California Press.

The heroin detoxification is surrounded by a series of stories which makes it to stand out compared to other buildings. The building is surrounded by different buildings which makes the clinic it to be in a surrounded area (Garcia, 2010). The clinic was formerly known as Juniper Hills, and it was a home of the mentally ill, the clinic was faced by many problems, which included lack of finance, less staff and the number of patients was too high for the clinic to cater for. Juniper hills was later burnt down, after a young girl set it ablaze after being depressed. She locked herself in one of the rooms and started fire while playing with match sticks.

What could have led the girl to start the fire, and who gave her the matchbox?

Garcia, A. (2010). The pastoral clinic: Addiction and dispossession along the Rio Grande. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Alma Gallegos was a heroin addict, and this made her to experience different health problems. On the day of her birthday, she was spotted lying unconscious at the parking lot of Espanola hospital, she was then admitted to the hospital where she was found to have overdosed from heroine (Garcia, 2010). The drug court then ruled that she be transferred to Nuevo Dia, a drug clinic after four days later. She had been previously admitted to the clinic before and was therefore going back for proper treatment. Alma did not see the importance of the clinic since she had been admitted before and she did not change at all.

Who is to blame for Alma’s escape from the intoxication clinic?

Reference

Garcia, A. (2010). The pastoral clinic: Addiction and dispossession along the Rio Grande. Berkeley: University of California Press.