So far, CRACK's numbers are sufficiently modest to border on the symbolic. There have been 13 drug-addicted clients, all women, who have chosen sterilization over the less permanent Norplant option. Prior to being sterilized, these 13 women had given birth to 78 children: Six were stillborn, two died after birth and 64 are now in foster care

A nurse at the hospital where she was due to deliver her son encouraged Adams to be sterilized and gave her a CRACK flier. "I didn't care. Money or not, I still wanted my tubes tied," says Adams. She used most of the $200 to buy things for her baby. "I told him, 'Kendall, you're the last button on Gabriel's coat and I'm going to use this on you.'"

Although Adams is not exactly the target CRACK client -- she had already made her decision, and the $200 was just a little more incentive -- she has become a veritable poster child for the program, appearing with Harris on radio and TV. And she has no regrets about her decision. "It is possible that you could regret it," she admits, "but I tell women to have a level head and do it for yourself, nobody else."