women drug addicts

"In an era in which every election cycle features a . . . battle over abortion's legality, [the author] uses her research to expose the limited ways in which making abortion a crime matters. Her insight into the real-life consequences that will ensue if states are permitted to criminalize abortion calls attention to the naive and misguided nature of contemporary struggles over abortion"--Dust jacket.

"Susan Burton's world changed in an instant when her five-year-old son was killed by a van driving down their street. Consumed by grief and without access to professional help, Susan self-medicated, becoming addicted first to cocaine, then crack. As a resident of South Los Angeles, a black community under siege in the War on Drugs, it was but a matter of time before Susan was arrested. She cycled in and out of prison for over fifteen years; never was she offered therapy or treatment for addiction. On her own, she eventually found a private drug rehabilitation facility. Once clean, Susan dedicated her life to supporting women facing similar struggles. Her organization, A New Way of Life, operates five safe homes in Los Angeles that supply a lifeline to hundreds of formerly incarcerated women and their children--setting them on the track to education and employment rather than returns to prison. Becoming Ms. Burton not only humanizes the deleterious impact of mass incarceration, it also points the way to the kind of structural and policy changes that will offer formerly incarcerated people the possibility of a life of meaning and dignity.

Danny Hansen is a priest who lives by a law of love and compassion. It is powerful men and hypocrites who abide by legal law but eschew the law of love that most incense Danny. As an avenging angel, he believes it is his duty to show them the error of their ways, at any cost.

Danny Hansen, having left his home after a war took the life of his mother and become a priest in America, spends his time showing powerful people who manipulate the law the errors of their ways, meets Renee Gilmore, a woman who is on a mission to destroy a man who made her his victim, and together they search for him, without realizing the path they are on may end very badly for both of them.

Jennifer Storm chronicles her battle with drug and alcohol addiction, describing how she used her addictions as a way of dealing with personal traumas and failures, and shares how she managed to get her life back on track.