COCAINE Questions?
Question by Elena: COCAINE questions?
please give me some information about the following;
Population(s) most at risk/age/race/sex that use cocaine?
Effect on unborn child when mom uses cocaine?
And cocaines cost to society?
thank you!
Best answer:
Answer by wcanoodle
here are some links where you might find statistics on that.
Drug Abuse
http://www.drugabuse.gov/PDF/RRSteroi.pdf (anabolic steroid abuse)
http://www.drugabuse.gov/ (National institute on Drug abuse)
http://www.samhsa.gov/ (substance and mental health services administration)
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/c/w2b/action/SearchAction?JServSessionIdzone_ct=lzyz5z6wy1&Term=NIDA (drug abuse clinical trials)
http://www.na.org/ (narcotics anonymous home page)
http://portaltools.na.org/portaltools/MeetingLoc/ (narcotics anonymous meeting finder)
Answer by MickieRN
you could probably google all of that.
The effect on the unborn child is that the child becomes addicted to cocaine and if the mom uses long enough can even cause premature labor and fetal death. IF they are born addicted, more than likely the child is taken away from the mother and placed on Methadone in a way to wean the baby off the drugs. They often scream for hours at a time, they cannot tolerate being held, rocked, cradled, touched or light. It’s quite a shame.
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