Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis, she points out the double standard of addiction, claiming that women’s drug use, particularly white women’s, disturbs society much more than men’s. Because women are or have the potential to become mothers, we moralize their drug use. Stoking our culture’s obsession with women as keepers of the domestic realm and our subsequent desire to penalize any woman who deviates from this role.
