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Physician dispels myths about drug-exposed infants

With the massive increase in cocaine use in the United States in the mid-1980's, a troubling new label has become part of our vocabulary -- "crack babies." The media has seized this term and is using it as a shorthand expression of society's frustration and anger in its inability to come to grips with the terrible problem of drug use during pregnancy. Headlines such as "The Crack Children," "Crack in the Cradle," and "Crack Babies: Genetic Inferiors" fill our nation's press.

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