In their wild journey, some drug addicts will constitute the main population of Greek prisons. The drug addict prisoner, already guilty and imprisoned within his own family, socially embarks on his own history, officially placing himself outside the law. By devaluing himself, he confirms the mental absence of the Symbolic Law-Father, seeking it in his own unique way. Beyond the limits and through the maternal functions of substances, he will attempt to cancel the trauma of his fragmented psyche and, as an acting body, he will transgress and reach a new mother, the prison. The woman, being awakened and towards her social gender, will seek masculinity. In this coercive framework of biopower, detoxification therapy will be the passage to the symbolic Law and freedom, through Language, Art, and Others.

"The axis of the whole book is the Symbolic Law and its tragic absence in the drug addict. He seeks it through his wanderings in the world of the margins, his impulsive acts, his deviance. In this continuous and futile search for the Law, he will encounter the law, violate it, and find himself in prison. In this place of confinement and suffering, R. Kangellari will meet the dependent girls and boys and will introduce us, as much as possible, to their world. Herself a psychologist-criminologist, with experience in drug addict detention facilities (Korydallos prisons, Avlona Detention Centers, Eleonas, etc.), she possesses that clinical experience and knowledge that allows her to confidently refute the dominant social stereotypes about the incurability of addiction, the biological nature of the problem, the reduction of addiction maintenance through treatment substitutes, and more." - Katerina Matsa

"Rhoda Kangellari's book begins as a journey from the womb to addiction and to the symbolic and real functions of the Law. Based on her contacts with addicted individuals, she describes this journey in a penetrating yet vivid way that makes reading enjoyable. She sheds light on the significant milestones of the journey and the search for the self through or despite the existence of the Other, sometimes as attractive and sometimes as fearsome, as the Other can be oneself in the process of self-awareness, search, acceptance, or rejection. In this journey, society is threateningly present as a web of conditions that exclude rather than enclose, promising only to break its promises." - Aphrodite Koukoutsaki