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Addiction Medicine
Researchers receive $4.9 million grant to continue study of prenatal exposure
October 27th, 2003
During the next 5 years, Case Western Reserve University psychologist Lynn Singer, PhD, and her research collaborators will track one of the largest groups of cocaine-exposed children in the nation at 9, 10, 11, and 12 years of age. These children will be compared to children not exposed to cocaine to assess the risks of prenatal exposure to cocaine and to assess the role of the environment on the outcome of drug-exposed children at school age. These children have been followed since birth. In prior studies of this group, which numbers 376 children, the researchers found that prenatal cocaine exposure was associated with poorer fetal growth, neonatal...
Source: Health & Medicine Week (2003-10-27)
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