Posted by Orin Kerr:
"Crack Babies: The Epidemic That Wasn't":
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_01_25-2009_01_31.shtml#1233090574
[1]This is fascinating in light of the tremendous concern about "crack
babies" in the 1980s:
When the use of crack cocaine became a nationwide epidemic in the
1980s and �90s, there were widespread fears that prenatal exposure
to the drug would produce a generation of severely damaged
children. Newspapers carried headlines like �Cocaine: A Vicious
Assault on a Child,� �Crack�s Toll Among Babies: A Joyless View�
and �Studies: Future Bleak for Crack Babies.�
But now researchers are systematically following children who
were exposed to cocaine before birth . . . . So far, these
scientists say, the long-term effects of such exposure on
children�s brain development and behavior appear relatively small.
Hat tip: Jonathan Simon.
References
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/health/27coca.html?ref=science
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