The mothers are even more isolated than most drug-addicted women in the system, who usually have relatives willing to take in a newborn.
When drug-addicted women give birth to damaged children, he said, the women should be counseled and treated.
Some drug-addicted women are forced into prostitution by their boyfriends, who serve as their pimps.
Wiser by far is the program at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, which treats 100 pregnant, drug-addicted women every year.
The title track is dedicated to a drug-addicted woman.
The album's title track encourages drug-addicted women to have an abortion rather than to allow their children to be raised by unfit mothers.
Coker said the he got the idea from a news story that he read about a drug-addicted woman who was forced into prostitution.
The Brooklyn court is significant for its emphasis on the needs of drug-addicted women, for whom treatment can be difficult to obtain.
There is a drug-addicted young woman who will presumably get treatment at the end; Rashid's dangerous run-in with criminals has a happy ending too.
He admits one of his clients, Ruby, to a therapy class for drug-addicted women, and in the process meets Megan.