DON'T LET BEING PREGNANT GET IN THE WAY OF YOU GETTIN HIGH

We should all learn a valuable lesson from famed UK singer, Amy Winehouse. She was found dead late last week.....Although the cause of death has not been officially released, we all generally suspect the same thing, DRUGS. Winehouse has a history of drug abuse and over the past few years she's been in the news more for her eratic behavior than her soultry songs. The smash hit "Rehab" has given us as fan the needed insight as to her trouble with the addiction. Crack is more powerful than we believe, it is truly a disease and should be treated as such. No one wakes up and makes the decision to be a "CRACK HEAD." Although we are responsible for our own actions, some things become beyond our control......There is a program called C.R.A.C.K., which stands for Children Requiring A Caring Kommunity. It was started by Barbara Harris, who was inspired when she  adpoted four children from the same drug addicted woman. The organization grew slowly....At first, she began working from home and got friends to help her post flyers in numerous major cities and infested neighborhoods. One sign read, " Don't let getting pregnant get in the way of your drug habit." The programs pays addicts to get sterilized (tubal ligation or vasectomy) so stop them from producing babies. This has been a very controversial subject being that some people think its unethical to "take advantage" of their disease. Being that most addicts will do anything for money, it's assummed that the program alters the decision making by offering a $300 award for such a permanent procedure. The program even offers addicts a $50 referral fee for referring other addicts to get sterilized. There are several pros and cons to this program. Growing up around drugs, as a child i was subjected to various circumstances that maybe could have been avoided......but the question comes where as an addict gets clean but cannot have any children because of the choice the drugs caused them to make.......then u could look at it as "what have this world come to"......paying addicts for anything......does this really help society? In a way it does. There would be less children in foster care and less money out of the tax payers pocket/ pocketbooks!!!!!