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Spreading images of negative characteristics and attributing them to all members of a stigmatized group further politicizes the process of stigmatization, linking individual personal characteristics with “deserving” public policy. Stigmatization in its worst form leads to outright discrimination. Individuals are rejected, isolated, overlooked for advancement, denied opportunities, and, in general, are judged solely on the basis of the stigma rather than on other potentially positive or qualifying attributes.
216). At no other time has the pregnant substance abuser been so demonized. It is hard not to question the role that race and socioeconomic status played in the typification of the crack mother. Without making excuses for the drug addicted mother, it is interesting to note that similar attention has not been given or paid to pregnant women who abuse alcohol. Studies are definitive about the effects of alcohol on the developing fetus. Fetal alcohol syndrome and its effects are well documented. More babies are born with fetal alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol effects than are addicted to drugs, and the effects lead to life-long difficulties (Boyce 2010; O’Connor et al.
She became so ashamed of who she had become, someone who “would steal from you to get high,” that she could not look at herself in the mirror. Another white woman in her late twenties celebrated eight years clean by telling her story. Her mother was an addict, and her father left the home when she was a young girl. ” She lamented that she had no personality, and she did not know how to be a lady. She had never had her nails done, and, when she came in, all she wore were Timberland boots and baggy jeans.