"Incredibly high levels of cocaine -- usually coupled with the abuse of other drugs -- can lead to premature labor, preterm birth and low birth weight, Stanwood said.
"But in women who have abused relatively low recreational doses of cocaine, it is actually very hard to distinguish those children at birth from children born to anyone else," he said. "However, as those children age, they do develop deficits in their cognitive and emotional development."
These children often exhibit attention and arousal problems, similar to children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, the standard treatments for ADHD -- Ritalin and other stimulants -- are not always effective in these children.
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 exp
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Gee, you mean we are wasting all the money doing research first with fruit flies, mice, rabbits, and other animals. Better let all the scientists to stop wasting their time and haul in the humans. Also we better junk all the cancer warning based on animal testing as most of them are.
And once again the apple does not fall far from the tree. In local news:
"She said Brown was the sweetest of her three sons and often shied away from fighting, even while squabbling with his siblings when he was a child. Battiste said Brown was born in California but moved to the Seattle area as a child to live with foster parents while she was in prison for bank robbery."
Local News | Mother: Brian Keith Brown was trying to help | Seattle Times Newspaper