Sentences with phrase «cocaine exposure as»

We included only biologically related dyads because we were interested in the phenomenon of prenatal cocaine exposure as related to both the infant exposed to the drug and the mother who had used cocaine during pregnancy.

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Children's cognitive ability from 4 to 9 years old as a function of prenatal cocaine exposure, environmental risk, and maternal verbal intelligence

Stephen Magura and Alexandre Laudet argue that in - utero exposure to cocaine and other drugs can lead to congenital deficits that may make a child more difficult to care for and, therefore, more prone to being maltreated.9 Parenting skills can also suffer among substance - abusing parents, who may be insufficiently responsive to their infants.10 Caregivers who abuse substances also may place a higher priority on their drug use than on caring for their children, which can lead them to neglect their children's needs for such things as food, clothing, hygiene, and medical care.

Dyads were classified into three groups: no prenatal exposure, some exposure, and heavy exposure (defined as reported cocaine use of ≥ 3 days per week during the first trimester; see Lester et.al., 2002).

These conclusions should not be taken as a wholly pessimistic view of the outcome of children with prenatal cocaine exposure.