A friend of mine sent me a link to a local news report when the Project Prevention van visited her area. I had initially titled this piece “An Uncomfortable Subject” because to be honest I’ve been sitting on this story for over a week now trying to figure out an official TDA stance on the issue and that was the best I could come up with… it’s uncomfortable.
In a nutshell, Project Prevention offers a cash reward to drug addicts and prostitutes if they will go on long term birth control like an IUD or be sterilized. The goal of course is avoid pregnant substance abusers and children born that have to be withdrawn from drugs.
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”Rachel Barfoot, 31, who had been charged before with beating her niece, told her probation officer that she was pregnant. When she tested positive for cocaine, she was arrested.”
Well it wasn’t actually the beer, but it probably did have something to do with it. Sifting through some photographs I was going to use for another title I ran across this advertisement for Nova Shin Beer. Yes the beer is non-alcoholic, notice the text running up the left hand side. Well it is definitely an effective ad (made me look), but I wonder if it resonated with the buyers or just turned heads? 