"Among those born in 1990, one in four black children, compared with one in 25 white children, had a father in prison by age 14. Risk is concentrated among black children whose parents are high-school dropouts"
Of course no where in this NY Times article do drugs or addiction make its way into the story. You and I know it can't be told without such a mention.
I now work with this population right in the heart of affluent Westchester County. It's like treating a pandemic of influenza with a dose of echinacea.
Read on:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/us/05prison.html?th&emc=th