Discuss how the war on drugs can be considered a war on poor and minority women. In order to be successful, you must consider and discuss the following topics:

The war on drugs has punished women as victimizers with little consideration of their personal histories of victimization.

Once women enter the criminal justice system, they are then "victimized" by the system through laws that take the "one-size-fits-all" approach to enforcement.

Sometimes women are used by their partner or spouse in order to strike a deal in order to reduce the partner or spouse's sentence.

The treatment of substance abuse has led to incarceration firstly, compared to being a last resort and seeking an alternative form of treatment.