In this reading, Angela Garcia explores how addiction, poverty, and healthcare are all interconnected in New Mexico. She does this by bringing a more nuanced understanding to this topic, extending it as a systemic issue and not an individual problem. She does so by tying in how forces such as colonialism, poverty, and other social/economic forces all play a role in the issue of heroism. I thought this was a very powerful way to present the topic and her emphasis on the idea of dispossession made me think about a lot of the themes she aimed to describe. Dispossession is the loss of land and identity by rural communities, specifically as she describes in Rio Grande valley. She explains that dispossession creates a feeling of hopeless and lack of control in these communities that drives civilians to greater heroin usage.
As far as her ethnographic methods, I thought it was really interesting that she worked in the clinics to become closer to her subject content. It does raise questions in terms of what the clinic allowed her to see and makes me wonder if her intentions with her study were made clear to all parties involved.