Sentences with phrase «includes exposure to drugs»

So — and, obviously, there are some other risks that you really hope children aren't exposed to but that — and that includes exposure to drugs — particularly illicit drugs and alcohol in utero, which also — I think there's some increasing evidence that that can, again, make children more irritable or impact on their neurological and cognitive development later on.

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Each Spring and Fall, Adoptions From The Heart offers a series of educational classes intended to increase knowledge and inform adoptive parents on various topics; including prenatal drug exposure, infant / child care and more.

«This includes optimizing nutrition, taking prenatal vitamins as recommended by their obstetrician, avoiding exposure to unnecessary drugs and medications, and ensuring that their own vaccinations are up to date,» says Dr. Wang.

Risks for the baby include exposure to infectious diseases, including HIV, to chemical contaminants, such as some illegal drugs, and to a limited number of prescription drugs that might be in the human milk, if the donor has not been adequately screened.

The recommendations described in this policy statement include supine positioning, use of a firm sleep surface, breastfeeding, room - sharing without bed - sharing, routine immunizations, consideration of using a pacifier, and avoidance of soft bedding, overheating, and exposure to tobacco smoke, alcohol, and illicit drugs.

The recommendations described in this report include infants sleeping on their back, using a firm sleep surface, to breastfeed, room - sharing without bed - sharing, routine immunizations, consideration of a pacifier, and avoidance of soft bedding, overheating, and exposure to tobacco smoke, alcohol, and illicit drugs.

Epidemiology studies have linked low sperm counts not only to aging but also to being too fat, being too thin, lack of exercise, excessive exercise, junk food, soda, exposure to toxins in food and air, and use of both prescription and nonprescription drugs, including tobacco and alcohol.

To measure risky online self - presentation the research team, which also included PhD student Clara Cutello, Dr Michaela Gummerum and Professor Yaniv Hanoch from the School of Psychology, designed a risk exposure scale relating to potentially inappropriate images or texts, such as drug and alcohol use, sexual content, personal information, and offensive materiaTo measure risky online self - presentation the research team, which also included PhD student Clara Cutello, Dr Michaela Gummerum and Professor Yaniv Hanoch from the School of Psychology, designed a risk exposure scale relating to potentially inappropriate images or texts, such as drug and alcohol use, sexual content, personal information, and offensive materiato potentially inappropriate images or texts, such as drug and alcohol use, sexual content, personal information, and offensive material.

Patients were asked to answer 11 yes / no questions that covered a range of mental health issues including hyperactivity, exposure to domestic violence, drug and alcohol use, bullying and thoughts of suicide.

«Environment» can mean many things, including exposure to stress, drugs, trauma, toxins, or illness.

So, whereas the typical person might think of their «environment» as their house, or their neighborhood - scientists trying to understand the factors that influence the development of schizophrenia define environment to include everything from the social, nutritional, hormonal and chemical environment in the womb of the mother during pregnancy, up to the social dynamics and stress a person is exposed to, to street drug use, education, virus exposure, vitamin use, and any other factor that could possibly be involved with the development of schizophrenia.

So, whereas the typical person might think of their «environment» as their house, or their neighborhood - scientists trying to understand the factors that influence the development of schizophrenia define environment to include everything from the social, nutritional, hormonal and chemical environment in the womb of the mother during pregnancy, up to the social dynamics and stress a person experiences, to street drug use, education, virus exposure, vitamin use, and much, much more.

Potential environmental triggers include fatigue, stress, infection, exposure to ultraviolet light, and taking certain types of medicines, namely sulfa drugs (which make people more sensitive to sunlight), penicillin or other antibiotics, and tetracycline.

To admit that environmental factors such as toxic food, toxic heavy metal exposure such as aluminum, and drugs themselves, including vaccines, are all a part of the problem, would be to commit financial suicidTo admit that environmental factors such as toxic food, toxic heavy metal exposure such as aluminum, and drugs themselves, including vaccines, are all a part of the problem, would be to commit financial suicidto commit financial suicide.

American and Italian researchers have found physical changes indicating the reduction of your body's ability to successfully detoxify if you have multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) or problems with continual environmental exposure, including exposure to alcohol, pharmaceutical drugs, personal care products and many commonly used household chemical.

Other potential causes include traumatic injury that results in a perforated lens and exposure to certain drugs or toxic substances, radiation, or electric shock.

Hearing loss can be caused by exposure to heavy metals, such as mercury or lead, or may occur after your pet takes certain medications, including chemotherapy drugs, diuretics or antibiotics.

There are many different kinds of poison; a wrong prescription medication could be considered a poison, some of the more common kinds of poisons that individuals are exposed to include pharmaceutical drugs or occupational exposures.

Examples provided include, administering mandatory drug testing, making fitness - for - duty and return - to - work determinations, testing for exposure to environmental hazards, and making short and long term disability determinations.

«No benefits will be paid due to Injury or death caused by, contributed to by or related to the following and / or their treatments and / or complications thereof: Sickness; Suicide or intentional self - inflicted Injury or poisoning; War, declared or undeclared; Acts of terrorism; While committing or attempting to commit a crime; Taking of illegal or non-prescribed drugs, or addiction or misuse of prescription drugs; Alcohol abuse or addiction, or being under the influence of alcohol, as defined by the vehicle code of the state or province in which the Accident has occurred; Mental or Nervous Disorders; Pre-Existing Conditions; Subjective Pain or other symptoms unless supported by objective medical findings; Pregnancy and pregnancy - related conditions including but not limited to fertility, pre-natal care, childbirth, miscarriage, abortion or postpartum conditions; Nuclear, biological or chemical exposure as a result of war, declared or undeclared or terrorism.»

Due to effects of multigenerational poverty, limited educational and economic opportunities, high levels of drug use and trade, and pervasive community violence, urban youth in Baltimore and many US cities are at increased risk for exposure to a variety of stresses, including early life stress, recurrent and chronic stress, and exposure to significant and / or recurrent traumas.

Individual risk factors for perpetration include alcohol and drug use, delinquency, empathic deficits, general aggressiveness and acceptance of violence, early sexual initiation, coercive sexual fantasies, preference for impersonal sex and sexual - risk taking, exposure to sexually explicit media, hostility towards women, adherence to traditional gender role norms, hyper - masculinity, suicidal behavior, and prior sexual victimization or perpetration.

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7

Previous studies suggested that early childhood trauma can lead to an array of negative health outcomes and behaviors, including substance abuse, among both adolescents and adults.22 — 25 For example, childhood physical and sexual abuse has been shown to be associated with illegal drug use.26 — 28 Although these studies provide evidence that most substance abusers come from abusive homes, many of these studies have taken a «categorical» approach to examine the relationship between 1 or 2 forms of these childhood exposures and subsequent drug abuse; few studies have examined illicit drug use and abuse in relation to multiple disturbing or stressful childhood exposures.

Today we understand that factors related to adoption have the potential to significantly impact the mental health of adopted youth: pre-natal experiences including alcohol or drug exposure; lack of pre-natal care, birthmother stress or depression, as well as early life traumatic experiences including neglect and abuse.

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.

Exposure to mould and toxins associated with MGOs and clandestine drug labs can cause serious health problems, including allergic (immunological) reactions, toxic effects and infection.