Crack Mothers: Pregnancy, Drugs, and the Media

by Drew Humphries

Book Overview

In Crack Mothers, Drew Humphries asserts that medicine and criminal justice have always been at odds on the subject of drug use. The one treats drug users as patients, the other as criminals. However, beginning in the late 1980s, the "crack mother" scare led to an unprecedented alliance between doctors and prosecutors in some states, where doctors turned addicted pregnant women over to the police for arrest, trial, and incarceration.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814250181
• ISBN13: 9780814250181
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"