A recent study by investigators at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development may help explain the long-term behavioral and neurological problems associated with prenatal exposure to cocaine.
Posted on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST at
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...155153.htm
There is nothing that I hate more than those parents that are so irresponsible that they can't stop their addictions long enough for their children to be born. This to me should be punished. I think it is pretty obvious when a mother abuses drugs when the child is born... I think at birth the mother should be tested and if it is positive, they should go to jail for child endangerment and giving drugs to a minor.
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Thanks for sharing good information about cocaine's effect. Studying the effects of prenatal cocaine exposure on the developing brain is difficult in human populations because cocaine abusers often abuse other drugs. Animal models can help determine how prenatal cocaine exposure might influence brain development to cause these subtle cognitive impairments.
"We thought that it was important to set up an animal model that recapitulates a key feature of human abuse -- that being intravenous exposure to low doses of cocaine," Stanwood said.