Prenatal Cocaine Research Papers

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Trinity Horn Intro. To Writing Wilcoxon 9/15/2010 At 2 years, cocaine babies suffer cognitive development effects This article is about how many renowned researches wanted to prove their theories about the long term effects cocaine has on infants. The researches followed 415 cocaine-exposed infants to find out how prenatal cocaine exposure affected the developmental outcomes. During these studies they found that a lot of their results were flawed for several reasons; being, high drop-out rates, small sample sizes and etc. So to help them fix where they went wrong they added other factors into their study; such as, mothers’ vocabulary and mental health status. They recruited mothers’ and infants between 1994 and 1996 from a high-risk population screened for drug abuse.…show more content…
My main idea statement for the topic would be, “The effects of prenatal cocaine exposure on infants, and the reasons behind it”. Based on the authors’ ideas, and points that were made in this article, I would completely agree with them. Everything was valid that was spoke of, and had the proof to back up the research. Although, there is only one thing that I’m torn between. That would be about punishing the families effected by these problems, and taking their children away. I completely agree with the research, and studies done. It’s to help educate people on how cocaine; in deed, effects infants and has a long term effect on them throughout life. Hopefully, with all that’s known about these studies it will help people to make the right choice and seek out help. Also, with people getting the education I agree that the authorities should have the right to take children from their families. Cause if they choose not to get help and continue to be abusive behavior, someone should step in. In the long run they won’t know how to properly care for these children who have to suffer this type of

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