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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

African American women --- Poor women --- Women drug addicts --- Drugs and sex --- Crack (Drug) --- Children of prenatal substance abuse --- Children exposed to prenatal substance abuse --- Prenatal substance abuse victims --- Prenatal substance-exposed children --- Substance abuse in pregnancy --- Crack cocaine --- Cocaine --- Sex and drugs --- Drug abuse --- Drugs --- Date rape drugs --- Drug addicts --- Feminization of poverty --- Women, Poor --- Poor --- Women --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Drug use. --- Drug use --- Sexual behavior --- Physiological effect --- Economic conditions