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A Cohort Study of Alkaloidal Cocaine (“Crack”) in Pregnancy

Obstetric Anesthesia DigestPublished 1 April 1989
Radha Cherukuri, Howard Minkoff, Joseph Feldman, A.J. Parekh, L Glass
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TL;DR

A retrospective matched cohort study of 55 women who admitted to the use of crack during pregnancy and 55 non-drug-using women who delivered during the same period found that normal neurobehavioral symptoms were present in a minority of infants and were usually mild.

Abstract

Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, and Preventive Medicine, State University of New York-Health Science Center at Brooklyn, New York

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Medicine