Book Reviews About Women And Drugs
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Book Reviews About Women And Drugs
Crack Mothers:
Pregnancy, Drugs, and the Media
Beginning in the late 1980s, the crack mother scare led to an unprecedented alliance between doctors and prosecutors, where doctors turned in addicted low-income minority pregnant women to the police for arrest, trial, and incarceration. While middle class white women weren't treated in the same manner.
The instant addiction of crack cocaine and its threat to the health of women and infants were exaggerated by the media and used to justify harsher social agendas regarding women and minorities.
The book is a well-researched examination of the severe treatment of addicted low-income minority pregnant women. An issue that has not gone away.
---Vanessa Bush
Crack Mothers Fast Lives:
Women Who Use Crack Cocaine
Truly lets you see life through the eyes of a crackhead. You'll feel like you are really there in the gutter of life, hangin with your homies in the hood.
You will be exposed to shocking lifestyles, sex for money, sex for drugs, money for drugs, and more. It's sick, it's filthy, and you won't wanna put this down.
Whether you're a recovered addict, sick mf, or just curious I would say this book is worth reading.
Fast Lives Gender, Drink and Drugs
An examination of both gender and addiction, ranging from ancient Rome to modern Japan.
The book suggests any substance, from alcohol to tea to heroin, inevitably takes its meaning or reality from the cultural system in which it exists.
Gender, Drink and Drugs Helping Women Recover:
A Program for Treating Addiction
This is for doctors, health care providers, and other professionals. If you are in one of these, or a similar profession, this will give a lot of insight into how and why women become addicted, and what can be done to treat addiction.
Helping Women Recover Nice Girls Don't Drink
What's it like to be a woman alcoholic in America? How does a woman's drinking affect her children, husband, lover, employer, fellow workers, and friends?
This answers these questions as no other book does, through the voices of some 25 women alcoholics who have hit rock bottom, confronted their addiction face-to-face, and completely turned their lives around.
Nice Girls Don't Drink Pregnant Women on Drugs:
Combating Stereotypes and Stigma
A book that tries to fight stereotypes of pregnant drug users as selfish and unfeeling women who don't care about their baby.
It shows the extent to which many drug-using women develop the motivation to achieve their dual goals of improving their children's health and maintaining maternal custody.
Pregnant Women on Drugs Substance and Shadow:
Women and Addiction in the United States
In 1989 Jennifer Johnson was convicted of delivering a controlled substance to a minor. That the minor happened to be Johnson's unborn child. Stephen R. Kandall, a neonatologist and pediatrician, testified as an expert witness on Johnson's behalf.
The experience caused him to wonder how one disadvantaged black woman's case became a prosecutorial battlefield in the war on drugs.
Substance and Shadow The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy:
Or Everything Your Doctor Won't Tell You
Offers practical, lighthearted advice to pregnant women, including tips on dealing with mood swings, sex during pregnancy, common fears, physical changes, childbirth, and more. Not specifically about drugs.
The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy The Nature of Nurture:
Biology, Environment, and the Drug-Exposed Child
Explores the biological and environmental factors that impact the ultimate development of drug-exposed children and presents practical strategies for helping children reach their full potential at home and in the classroom.
The health consequences for children exposed to alcohol, cocaine, and other drugs are enormous, but the implications for behavior and learning are even greater.
The Nature of Nurture The Pregnancy Journal:
A Day-To-Day Guide to
a Healthy and Happy Pregnancy
The first of its kind to combine practical information with beautiful design in a keepsake format.
The Pregnancy Journal will reassure mothers-to-be about their babies' developmental stages and provide room for expectant parents to record the thoughts, experiences, and joys of pregnancy. Not specifically about drugs.
The Pregnancy Journal The Reluctant Shaman:
A Woman's First Encounters With
The Unseen Spirits Of The Earth
This book recounts the first steps in the making of a modern-day shaman. An honest account of a woman trying to make sense of experiences that are not comprehensible to most people living in our present society.
The woman, a young mother and student, was chosen by two South American shaman to learn and carry the light of their teachings. A book for the seeker, who'll come out more spiritually grounded than expected.
---lscherer@mindspring.com
The Reluctant Shaman Using Women:
Gender, Drug Policy, and Social Justice
From the 1950s girl junkie to the 1990s crack mom, Using Women investigates how the cultural representations of women drug users have defined America's drug policies in this century.
In analyzing the public's continued fear, horror and outrage wrought by the specter of women using drugs, Nancy Campbell demonstrates the importance that public opinion and popular culture have played in regulating women's lives.
Using Women When the Bough Breaks:
Pregnancy and the Legacy of Addiction
This is a remarkable book! It deals with the problem of pregnancy and addiction in a genuinely unique way, combining poems and photographs to bring home the gravity of the issue and the way it impacts on so many women's lives.
When the Bough Breaks Women and Substance Abuse:
Gender Transparency
by Sally J. Stevens (Editor), Harry K. Wexler (Editor)
Women and Substance Abuse