Prenatal substance abuse.
Beginning in the middle of the 1980s, there was an alarming rise in the number of drug-exposed newborns that was directly attributable to the rise in the abuse of cocaine and its highly addictive smokeable derivative, known as crack, by pregnant women. "Crack babies" have now become a major national problem.
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University of Iowa.
McPherson
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