Cory Duchesne said:

"How can anyone be for drug abuse? How can anyone be for addiction? How can anyone be for cocaine babies? This whole rhetoric is obviously impossible. So the issue is not being for the abuse of drugs. The issue is being for self-responsible behavior. And if we know anything we know that the more controls are imposed on people from without, the less they will control themselves, and vice versa.  If you treat adolescents as if they were responsible, they will act responsibly. If you treat them as if they are irresponsible, they will act irresponsibly." (Thomas Szasz)

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During the 80's and 90's, the nation's health specialists panicked over the growing number of so-called "crack babies" — children exposed to crack cocaine in utero. These children were said to be doomed to lives of physical and mental disability. But, 20 years later, many of the children who were perceived to be "at-risk" are proving the predictions wrong as young adults. Host Michel Martin speaks to Mary Barr, an activist who is vocal about her own drug abuse during pregnancy, and Nisa Beceriklisoy, her daughter. Also joining the conversation is Dr. Carl Bell, a clinical professor of psychiatry and public health at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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