However, drastic attempts to curb the population explosion, such as very strict forms of birth control and clinical abortion, do not offer any simple solution, for they have
alarming social consequences.
They are similar to prisons in that they result in concentrated settings of people who use drugs and, due to their ineffectiveness, result in
alarming rates of drug relapse and disruption to people's
social networks that accelerate their risk for negative
consequences like overdose, death and infection with blood - borne viruses.