RT Article
T1 Pregnant Drug Users: Scapegoats of Reagan/Bush And Clinton-Era Economics
JF Social justice
VO 28
IS 4
SP 72
OP 95
A1 Murphy, Sheigla 1949-
A2 Sales, Paloma
LA English
YR 2001
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747159042
AB A study was conducted to examine the ways in which pregnant drug users in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, experienced, coped with, and protected themselves from growing stigmatization, abuse, and punishment during a period of fiscal retrenchment of government assistance programs running from the Reagan to the Clinton era. These funding decisions created barriers and denied access to cost-effective services that would allow pregnant drug users with limited means to improve their lives. Findings reveal that such women were forced to find alternative resources and to construct survival strategies that included drug use, compromising their ability to care for themselves and their children.
K1 War on poverty (United States)
K1 Drug utilization
K1 Public welfare -- United States
K1 Welfare recipients
K1 Drugs
K1 Substance abuse in pregnancy