Estudo Confirma Que Pobreza É Pior Para A Saúde Que Crack En Utero

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A new study finds that exposure to crack cocaine in the womb is not as harmful to a child's health as being raised in poverty.

Perhaps the hysteria over “crack babies” was misplaced.

Babies whose mothers smoked crack cocaine while pregnant do not face
the kinds of health risks that many scientists initially feared, a new
study has concluded.

In 1989, Hallam Hurt, who was then the chair of neonatology at
Philadelphia’s Albert Einstein Medical Center, began to study the long
term health prospects for children born to mothers who had smoked crack
during pregnancy.

At the time, Philadelphia was at the center of the nation’s crack
epidemic, and a separate study found that one out of every six babies
born at the city’s hospitals was to a mother who had tested positive for
cocaine, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported

This past June, after 25 years of following people born at the height
of the city’s crack epidemic, Hurt unveiled the results of her study,
which concluded that, in terms of overall negative health effects, a
mother’s crack use was not as harmful as whether or not the child grew
up in poverty.

“Poverty is a more powerful influence on the outcome of inner-city
children than gestational exposure to cocaine,” Hurt said in a recent
lecture.

Hurt followed 224 near-term or full-term babies, half who had mothers
who used cocaine during pregancy, and half who did not. All of the
babies, the majority of whom were African American, were born into
low-income families.

When comparing the two groups of babies, Hurt found that crack use of
the mother during pregnancy did not result in significantly lower IQ, as
many researchers had posited

Instead, Hurt found that the IQ of her subjects was lower across the
board than national averages, leading her to conclude that poverty was
the reason.

Hurts’ conclusions have been backed up by other research. Claire Coles,
a psychiatry professor at Emory University who has been following a
group of poor Atlanta children to measure the effects of crack cocaine,
is unsurprised by Hurts’ findings.

"As a society we say, 'Cocaine is bad and therefore it must cause
damage to babies,' " Coles told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "When you
have a myth, it tends to linger for a long time."

Hurt’s study, which was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse,
does note that pregnant mothers who use crack risk a host of possible
health complications, including drastically higher blood pressure,
premature labor, and damage to the placenta.

Still, the notion that babies whose mothers smoked the drug while
pregnant were relegating them to a lifetime of misery was not supported
by her findings.

[sano]

Boa, Canada!

Faz tempo que a galera vem dizendo que o problema não é o Crack, e sim a miséria e a falta perspectiva de vida!

[Fabrício BrasilC (olho)]

Sonho com a legalização para ver o Brasil resolvendo parte de suas mazelas sociais com a Cannábis plantada, comercializada, reprocessada para remédio, etc, etc.

[politicweed]

"When you have a myth, it tends to linger for a long time." - Infelizmente há mitos implantados intencionalmente e que perdurarão mesmo com artigos como este... malditos sejam os interesses elitistas.

[Chilo]

O papa dos pobres popresa é normál,ñ trago ouro nem prata mas manipulo as mazas cóntrá issó e aquiló!