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From witches to crack moms : women, drug law, and policy

"This book provides a critical feminist analysis of the impact drug law and policy have on women in the U.S. compared with women in Britain and Canada. In order to illuminate the connections between the regulation of illegal drug use in Western liberal states and non-Western states, the drug war's impact on women and indigenous peoples in Colombia is also addressed."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2004
Carolina Academic Press, Durham, N.C., ©2004
History
xxiv, 367 pages ; 22 cm
9780890891278, 0890891273
53289631
Introduction
Myths and ideologies
A feminist sociological perspective
Social control
Social construction and feminist research
Sexuality, the family, and mothering
1. Women and illegal and legal drugs
Drugs : what are they?
A brief history of drug regulation and women
Witch hunts
The gin craze
Colonization and the regulation of altered states of consciousness
The regulation of coca
Western drug use : women's use of opiate remedies
Marijuana and cocaine use
Women's drug use : a personal matter
Temperance ideology
Ideological overlap between the anti-opiate and prohibition movement
Contemporary drug regulation
Drug regulation since the 1950s
Legal drugs : tobacco, alcohol, and prescribed drugs
Tobacco
Alcohol
Prescribed drugs
Feminist research
SSRI prescribing and the disciplinary society
The legal/illegal divide
Advertising and profit
Resistance
Contemporary drug use rates
Canadian drug trends
British drug trends
The diversity of drug use
2. The medical, legal, and moral regulation of women
The regulation of reproduction
Medicalization
A social model of health
Pregnancy and drugs
Maternal drug use and infant doping : a historical perspective
Identifying pregnant women who use drugs and drug testing
Neonatal abstinence syndrome
Cocaine and pregnancy
Narcotics and pregnancy
Tobacco and pregnancy
Alcohol use and pregnancy
Marijuana and cultural factors
Risk categories
The criminalization of pregnancy : maternal-state conflicts
Civil child welfare law
Nongovernment initiatives
Alternative maternity services
Glasgow
Liverpool
Manchester
Resistance in the U.S
Conclusion
3. Welfare regulation of women
Welfare regulation
Fitness to parent
Welfare reform in the U.S
Women regulating women
Women, welfare, and illegal drugs in the U.S
Section 15
HUD housing
Welfare in Canada
Sunny Hill Hospital
Apprehension of the fetus
Welfare and illegal drug use in Britain
Conclusion. 4. A sociological perspective of drug use and treatment
Historical background
Alternative views
Negative drug use
Feminism and drug treatment
Women's experience of treatment in North America
Treatment goals
The drug treatment industry and diversity
Harm reduction
Alternative-treatment options
Drug courts
History of the drug courts
Cost effectiveness of drug courts
Gender and cultural factors
Widening the net of social control
Drug courts in Canada
Coerced-treatment replaces voluntary-treatment options
Conclusion
5. Women in conflict with the law
Arrest rates and imprisonment of women in Britain, Canada, and the U.S
Women in Britain
Women in Canada
Women in the U.S
Conflict with the law
Women, prostitution, and drug dealing
Racial profiling
Gendered drug law in the U.S
Drug conspiracy and drug couriers
Plea bargaining
Asset seizures and the impact on women
Drug war refugees
Prison and the regulation of women
The emergence of the prison
The war on drugs and the restructuring of prisons
Search teams
Drug testing in prison
Health care and legal drugging
Drug treatment
HIV and prison
Methadone in prison
Pregnancy and the use of restraints
Mothering
Tearing apart the family and community, and visiting prisons
Release
Further obstacles
The prison industry
Resistance
6. U.S. international policy and the war in Colombia
U.S. and CIA intervention and international drug policy
Narcoterrorism
United States federal drug policy
The civil war in Colombia
Plan Colombia
The displacement of indigenous peoples
Women's resistance to violence in Colombia
Further justification for foreign intervention
Victim nation
7. Road to social justice
Legalization