Jen’s Reviews > From Witches to Crack Moms: Women, Drug Law, and Policy > Status Update

One day I will finish this book! On that day I will be so very happy that I just might become a crack mom too. Jeezus.

"It is all set up to make you feel like a failure, because when there is only one method of treatment, if you don't fit in there..well, that is the reason that...one of the reasons you became addicted in the first place."

workfare ideology and mistaking the effects of poverty with the effects of drugs in studies.

Ferguson v. The City of Charleston, South Carolina 2001 shit. SCOTUS saves the day.

"When the medical profession realized that the fetus was vulnerable to toxic drugs, they began to perceive mothers as a danger to and separate from the fetus, rather than perceiving the fetus as a part of the mother's body and as vulnerable as any of her internal organs."

"Then, as now, the coca leaf contained more vitamins and minerals than fifty other foods that were regularly consumed in South America..."