I really enjoyed this week’s reading and found it very intriguing – I was captivated immediately and found it easy to get through the reading quickly while still absorbing all of the information. Garcia spends years doing field work in New Mexico and observing her neighbors and the people within the community. She writes her ethnography in a narrative style that is captivating and significant, allowing the reader to connect to the different “characters” and understand the gravity of the drug problems within this community. One of the most important quotes that I noted from chapter 5 is “He asked me, from an “insider perspective,” what I thought the biggest problem was with the clinic. I looked around me and answered: life outside it” (190). I thought this line was very profound and captured one of the main points of this ethnography. Chapter 5 primarily discusses how the detoxication clinic was shut down because it was considered too “unstable” to remain open. However, an important point that is captured in this quote is the fact that the clinic, meant to help solve some of the problems within the community, itself was shut down without any true alternative solution. It is the structural issues of this community that condone and even amplify the drug problems and fail to find effective solutions. For example, a woman that Garcia met discusses how when she needed to go through a heroin detox, her only options were to remain trapped in her abusive family home or leave her children and find housing somewhere else. In this case, neither of the options are favorable solutions and both place the woman into a vulnerable and hopeless state. Garcia demonstrates that without fundamental changes to the structure of the community and the necessary resources, the drug problem will continue to persist and endanger the lives of many. This leads me to ask the question: what are other places or situations that one may see issues similar to that of the communities in this ethnography? This does not necessarily mean a drug problem, but rather situations where the community is essentially trapped without the necessary resources to help them.