Educational Implications of Prenatal Exposure to Drugs

Educational Implications of Prenatal Exposure to Drugs:

EFFECTS OF PRENATAL EXPOSURE TO ILLICIT DRUGS

This review is restricted to drugs with a relatively substantial body of research data: cocaine, opiates (primarily heroin and methadone), amphetamine and methamphetamine, phencyclidine hydrochloride (PCP), and marijuana.

The majority of babies born to women addicted to heroin (or on methadone maintenance) suffer from neonatal abstinence syndrome. (McCance-Katz 1991; Mas et al. 1990; Fulroth, Phillips, & Durand 1989; Rosen & Johnson 1985).