TY - BOOK ID - 78142424 TI - Behind the eight ball PY - 2005 SN - 0203050541 1283886677 1136423524 9781136423529 9780203050545 9781136423598 1136423591 9781136423666 1136423664 078902456X 9780789024565 0789024578 9780789024572 9781283886673 PB - New York Haworth Press DB - UniCat KW - African American women KW - Poor women KW - Women drug addicts KW - Drugs and sex KW - Crack (Drug) KW - Children of prenatal substance abuse KW - Children exposed to prenatal substance abuse KW - Prenatal substance abuse victims KW - Prenatal substance-exposed children KW - Substance abuse in pregnancy KW - Crack cocaine KW - Cocaine KW - Sex and drugs KW - Drug abuse KW - Drugs KW - Date rape drugs KW - Drug addicts KW - Feminization of poverty KW - Women, Poor KW - Poor KW - Women KW - Afro-American women KW - Women, African American KW - Women, Negro KW - Drug use. KW - Drug use KW - Sexual behavior KW - Physiological effect KW - Economic conditions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78142424 AB - Inner-city black women open their hearts to share the pain of crack addiction and its consequences Behind the Eight Ball: Sex for Crack Cocaine Exchange and Poor Black Women documents an American tragedy that highlights the widening gap between social and economic classes. In their own words, poor black women?nameless, faceless, and marginalized by poverty?share the details of their lives before and after crack cocaine invaded their communities, each recalling the circumstances of her introduction to the drug and her first experience using sex to support her addiction. These candid ER -