Barry M. Lester, PhD
Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk
Women, Pregnancy and Drug Use:
Medical Facts, Practical Responses and the Well-Being of Children and Families
Oklahoma City, November 14, 2007
Prenatal Drug Exposure & Child Outcome: Time for Policy to Catch up with Research
The Warren Alpert Medical School
of Brown University
Are There Drug Effects
YES, BUT:
They are smaller than initially thought
Not all drug exposed children are affected
They can be treated
Science and Prenatal
Drug Exposure
In the 1980s, early reports on prenatal cocaine effects created a public frenzy about "unfit to parent" women and their damaged "crack babies."
History and Headlines
When drug babies reach school age
COCAINE
HURTS BABIES

Crack
A Disaster of Historic Dimension, Still Growing
Studies: Future bleak for crack babies
Mothers Turned
Into Monsters
Pregnant cocaine user guilty of abuse
Cocaine: a vicious
assault on a child
Crack's Toll Among Babies: A Joyless View, Even of Toys
Based on insufficient and inaccurate information, society over-reacted.
Women were prosecuted, children were removed from their birth mothers, families were split up.
History and Headlines
When drug babies reach school age
COCAINE
HURTS BABIES

Crack
A Disaster of Historic Dimension, Still Growing
Studies: Future bleak for crack babies
Mothers Turned

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