Addicted Babies
Technically, the term addicted babies shouldrefer to infants who are born passively physically dependent on drugs. In practice, it is used to refer to all babies extensively exposed to...
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Pregnancy and Drug Dependence: Opioids and Cocaine
During the 1980s, increasing numbers of pregnant drug-dependent women went to medical facilities—some to receive ongoing prenatal care, but ot...
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Babies, Addicted and Drug-Exposed
Addicted babies are infants who are born physically dependent on drugs because of drug use by the mother during her pregnancy. Doctors consider babies addicted if th...
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During some of the bloodiest years of the drug wars of the 1980s, crack was seen as far more dangerous than powdered cocaine, and that perception was written into the sentencing laws. But now that ...
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During some of the bloodiest years of the drug wars of the 1980s, crack was seen as far more dangerous than powdered cocaine, and that perception was written into the sentencing laws. But now that ...
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Addicted Babies
Babies, Addicted and Drug-Exposed
Decades later, the notion that crack is far more dangerous than cocaine is widely disputed
