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Bookmark or Share- Born on drugs: Predictions about crack babies didn’t come true ...“Dire predictions of reduced intelligence and social skills in babies born to mothers who used crack cocaine while pregnant during the 1980s — so-called “crack babies” — were grossly exaggerated,” NIDA researchers wrote.
- Prenatal cocaine exposure - Wikipedia"Crack baby" was a term coined to describe children who were exposed to crack cocaine as fetuses; the concept of the crack baby emerged in the US during the 1980s and 1990s in the midst of a crack epidemic. Other terms are "cocaine baby" and "crack kid".
- Crack Babies: A Tale From the Drug Wars - The New York TimesRetro Report: In the 1980s, many government officials, scientists and journalists warned that the country would be plagued by a generation of “crack babies.” They were wrong. Recent episodes in...
- Childhood Medical and Behavioral Consequences of Maternal Cocaine UseAvailable studies suggest that prenatal exposure to crack-cocaine can have significant medical effects on the fetal growth and neurological development of the infant, potentially resulting in long-term behavioral and intellectual disabilities.
- Crack Babies | What We Know About Prenatal Crack ExposureProtect Your Baby. Cocaine is a highly addictive illicit drug that comes in powder form. Some people cook the powder into smokeable rocks known as crack cocaine . According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), about 750,000 pregnant women use cocaine, including crack cocaine, every year. Like many forms of drug use, crack cocaine use ...
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