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Thread: Meth babies.
ScrapMonkey
Your baby shows signs our meth-exposed newborna have had. One problem is many math users abuse other drugs as well and many will never admit to other substances that the baby did not already test positive for at birth. The othe baby sounds similar to cocoaine exposed newborns we've had.
I happen to have data on adopted children from the Florida foster care system (I do adoption research for my master's degree). In my data set, over 90% of the 59 meth users, almost 80% of the 187 crack users and almost 80% of the 214 cocaine users also used alcohol during pregnancy. Alcohol seems to be the worst teratogen, and it's hard to know which effects are alcohol related and which are drug related. In a study that I recently read, they studied brain MRIs of children who were meth exposed (BTW, the study found that about 80% of the mothers had also used alcohol) which found that meth seemed to make the alcohol related effects on the brain more pronounced.