Crack Cocaine Pregnant Women
Concerns Mount Over Punitive Approaches To Substance Abuse …
Moreover, despite the focus on crack cocaine, critics point to the real potential—at least in South Carolina—for the law to reach even further into the lives of pregnant women. … Fetch Content
Prenatal Cocaine Exposure
Approximately 221,000 pregnant women use an illicit drug at least once during their pregnancy, and one in five of those women (44,000) smokes crack cocaine. … Return Document
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Was pregnant The father left, and a week later she miscarried. One ofAlice’s dreams is to live with a nice man who loves and cares with female crack use.’ Women who use crack cocaine meet with harsher disap- … Fetch Full Source
Social Justice, Spring 1999 V26 I1 P115(2)
A higher percentage of pregnant black women (7.8) used cocaine than did pregnant white women (1.8); and pregnant white women (14.4) evidenced significantly Outrage at pregnant women who use crack has not been accompanied by a corresponding level of outrage at the fact that many do not have health … View Full Source
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FEATURE: PREGNANT WOMEN, JUNK SCIENCE, AND ZEALOUS DEFENSE BY Lynn Paltrow and Kathrine Jack babies born to mothers who used crack cocaine while pregnant, were at one time written off by many as a lost … Access Content
A Mathematical Comparison Of Prevention Strategies For …
Altering the parameters that cause pregnant women to abuse crack–cocaine. We analyze the e?ects of the interaction of women with drug-using men, … Fetch Here
Cocaine
Crack is cocaine in chunk form, also known as “rock”. It is mixed with baking soda and water, so that it can As there is no known safe level of cocaine use for pregnant women, it is not recommended to use cocaine during pregnancy. … Get Content Here
Special Needs Of Cocaine Abusing Pregnant Women
America: “crack”, the free base form of cocaine, is still rare in Europe and mainly abused cognitive behavioral psychotherapy presently constitutes the best treatment option for cocaine addicted pregnant women, especially when combined … Content Retrieval
HARVARD LAW
Most are addicted to crack cocaine. 7 The prosecution of drug-addicted mothers is part of an alarming trend towards greater state intervention into the lives of pregnant women under the rationale of protecting the fetus from harm. … Return Doc
THE EFFECTS OF PRENATAL COCAINE EXPOSURE
Assessing the effect of prenatal drug exposure typically involves identifying pregnant women who use drugs before delivery (the study in this chapter typically includes women who had used either crack cocaine or powder cocaine during … Retrieve Full Source
23 Prenatal Substance Exposure And Human Development
One in ?ve women reports using tobacco while pregnant. The association between smoking during pregnancy and adverse child Robert’s mother used crack cocaine while she was pregnant. Crack is a smokable form of cocaine and is highly … Fetch Document
PROTECTING THE UNBORN AS MODERN DAY EUGENICS
In the 1980s, the media focused national attention on the "crack epidemic," documenting the destructive effects of cocaine abuse among young pregnant women, and predicting a lost generation irredeemably damaged as a result of their mothers' cocaine use. 17 Magazines, newspapers, and … Retrieve Document
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And that other factors are responsible for many of the ills previously attributed to pregnant women's use of cocaine. who has had no drug exposure at all is doing no better than the child labeled a ‘crack-baby.”’ [FN7] Nevertheless, spurred on by the media barrage concerning pregnant women and … Get Doc
R E G N A N C Y & O C A I N E P
CO C A I N E & PR E G N A N C Y Ri s i ng cocaine use and the emergence of crack cocaine in the 1980s spu rred fea r s about its effects on the de ve l MK,Gilstrap LC.Cocaine use in pregnant women in a large public hospital. … Document Viewer
Don’t Judge Pregnant Drug-Using Women Based On Junk Science
Parents told them that “the four brothers had been born addicted to crack cocaine and had an eating disorder.”7 That was enough to stop the inquiries until the boys were near death because their adoptive parents were starving them. Before you judge pregnant women who use drugs please look at the … Access Doc
HRD-91-55FS Drug Abuse: The Crack Cocaine Epidemic–Health …
Special Health Unlike other drug epidemics, the crack cocaine epidemic has affected Problems for Pregnant many women of childbearing age. … Document Retrieval
Prenatal Marijuana And Cocaine Use In Alaska Seriousness …
There are few controlled trials of interventions for pregnant women who use illicit drugs. Women who use crack and other forms of cocaine account for the largest group of … Fetch Content
Complex Developmental Issues Of Prenatal Drug Exposure – Abstract
Attention has primarily focused on crack cocaine use by pregnant women, that examination ignores the thousands of pregnant women who use and abuse one or more other legal and illegal drugs. … Retrieve Document
TCADA Research Briefs: – Crack Cocaine As A Major Risk For …
Urines for cocaine, and 2.4% in those with negative urines (OR=9.3). In a study of HIV-infected pregnant women, Ellerbrock et al. (1992) also found that use of crack was indepen … Access Doc