Project Prevention (founded and formerly known as Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity or C.R.A.C.K.) is an American non-profit organization which pays drug addicts and alcoholics 200USD for volunteering to receive long-term birth control or sterilization. As of January 2006, the amount offered has been increased to 300USD. It has been suggested that Organizing be merged into this article or section. ... Drug addiction, or dependency is the compulsive use of drugs, to the point where the user has no effective choice but to continue use. ... King Alcohol and his Prime Minister circa 1820 Alcoholism is the consumption of or preoccupation with alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with the alcoholics normal personal, family, social, or work life. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... Birth control is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman becoming pregnant or giving birth. ... Sterilization is a surgical technique leaving a male or female unable to procreate. ...

Barbara Harris founded the organization in 1997 after she and her husband adopted four children from a drug-addicted mother. After the experience of helping the children through withdrawal and other health problems, she attempted to have legislation passed in California which would have mandated long-term birth control for mothers who gave birth to drug-addicted babies. After this failed, she opted instead to start what is now called Project Prevention.

Despite the fact that all patients are volunteers, the organization has incited a large amount of controversy. Some would claim that it is a human right to have children that should not be restricted. Critics also make comparisons to the eugenics movement of the early 20th century. Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution: Logo from the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921, depicting it as a tree which unites a variety of different fields. ...

As of July 16, 2006, Project Prevention has paid and treated 1854 women and 27 men.

External links

• Project Prevention Home Page
• Selling Sterilisation to Addicts. Clare Murphy,BBC News Online, 2 September 2003.
• Deal of a Lifetime. Craig Malisow, Houston Press. 27 February 2003.
• CRACK Comes to New York. Paroma Basu, Village Voice, 30 October - 5 November 2002.
• Q&A with Barbara Harris. Steve Sailer, United Press International, 9 May 2002.
• Leave No Child Behind. Brennen Jensen, Baltimore City Paper. 13 March 2002.
• Surgical strike. Barry Yeoman, Mother Jones, November/December 2001.