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However, the help came too late to save her daughter, Jacey. Jacey spent two weeks suffering withdrawal, a result of the methadone Frazier took during pregnancy to control an addiction to prescription painkillers. Six months later, the girl was dead — the victim of a lethal dose of methadone Frazier mistakenly gave her.
Each of them recovered well enough to be discharged from the hospital. Yet, what sealed their fates was being sent home to families ill-equipped to care for them.
More than 40 of the children suffocated. Thirteen died after swallowing toxic doses of methadone, heroin, oxycodone or other opioids. Jennifer Lacey Frazier's daughter Jacey inherited her drug addiction - and spent the first two weeks of her life going through withdrawal. The dependency was a result of the methadone Ms Frazier took during pregnancy to control an addiction to prescription painkillers. Baby Jacey died six months later when Ms Frazier accidentally gave her a lethal dose of methadone.
Ms Frazier was sentenced to 15 years in prison in after pleading guilty to aggravated manslaughter of a child. Since , when Congress called on states to intervene in cases of drug-dependent babies, diagnoses of neonatal abstinence syndrome, also known as newborn drug withdrawal syndrome, have increased sharply.
In one case, a baby in Oklahoma died after her mother, high on methamphetamine and opioids, put the day-old girl in a washing machine with a load of dirty laundry.
The crisis is fed by the ready availability of prescription painkillers and cheap heroin. That number has grown dramatically in the years since. Using hospital discharge records, Reuters tallied more than 27, diagnosed cases of drug-dependent newborns in - the latest year for which data are available.
On average, one baby was born dependent on opioids every 19 minutes. The federal law calls on states to protect each of these babies, regardless of whether the drugs their mothers took were illicit or prescribed. But most states are ignoring the federal provisions, leaving thousands of newborns at risk every year. And statutes or policies in the remaining five states are murky and confusing, even for doctors and child protection workers.
Clorissa Jones was addicted to drugs when she gave birth to her first son Jacoby. She said: 'I was in labor, in the bathroom, shooting heroin. Ms Jones discovered she was seven weeks pregnant after losing custody of Jacoby. Determined not to lose custody of another child, she entered a rehab program for addicted mothers at Johns Hopkins University.
Better not to. I f set down in the midst of a particularly bloody battle, Ira Chasnoff would doubtless later describe his experience in the friendliest possible manner — right down to the mangled corpses. Normal conventions that cloak tragedy — the knitted brow, the hushed voice — are absent from this Chicago neonatologist.
While all doctors are trained to be matter-of-fact about death and disease, Chasnoff is positively zenlike. Chasnoff thus became one of the first scientists to warn that prenatal cocaine exposure warranted serious attention. His initial studies were the very ones that warned Judith Schaffer. It was in the mid-Eighties that Chasnoff put the word out that any pregnant addict who was worried about her baby could come to his clinic.
The deal was this: Chasnoff and his staff would provide free prenatal care if the women participated in outpatient drug treatment. More and more women showed up, and from this population, Chasnoff began collecting data — both on the women and the babies they bore. The results were overwhelming. Strokes, small head circumferences a sign of possible retardation , low birth weights and Apgar scores, a greatly increased risk of crib death — the list went on and on. To begin with, the women Chasnoff studied were addicted to cocaine, not crack.
For various reasons, crack has never caught on in Chicago. While the chemistry of the drugs is, of course, the same, patterns of use are not. Though no one has been able to link dosage to damage, common sense suggests that more cocaine is probably worse than less.
Perhaps most important is the fact that by virtue of being in the program, they were getting prenatal care — a rarity for the vast majority of addicts. A number have found staggering miscarriage and stillbirth rates — depending on which study you read, children of cocaine-abusing women stand as much as a sixty-percent chance of dying in utero or during the first year of life.
In some cities, crack is the abortion method of choice for regular users in the first trimester. For women about to give birth, street wisdom has it that a first-class binge will get labor going.
Maternity wards in major city hospitals are by now used to blitzed-out women having one-hour labors. Perhaps the most chilling studies have come from Dr. Suzanne Dixon, a behavioral and neuro-developmental pediatrician at University of California, San Diego. Dixon looked at a group of crack babies who had abnormal ECHO neurological ultrasound results — of that group forty-one percent had serious intercranial lesions. In other words, they had holes in their brains. T he little boy sneaks over to a toy box and quickly stuffs two tiny plastic dolls in his pockets.
His sister, who has been scribbling up and down her arms with a ballpoint pen, looks up. She rams him hard, knocking him down, and begins clawing at his pockets.
Matt has recently developed an attachment to these dolls. Even Serena seems to sense how important this is. And it drives her crazy. Matt now leans against his mother, fingering one of the Ninja dolls. Later, when her mother is distracted for a moment, Serena will slip away. In less than a minute, the two-year-old will start a fire in the kitchen. Normal babies crave contact with other human beings.
They love to be looked at, sung to and held. An instruction video for parents of crack babies shows a solemn doctor holding a wary baby facing outward.
Eye contact? Add light, maintain distance and hold the vocals. They cry in a high feline wail, sometimes for hours on end, and nothing can console them.
That creepy catlike cry is itself indicative of neurological damage. And during a crying jag, their rigid little arms flap about, which makes them even more frantic: They seem to believe their arms belong to someone else, a vicious someone who relentlessly flogs them. In short, these babies lack just about everything that makes adults coo.
Crack leaves nothing to chance. Not only does it make babies only a mother could love, it wipes out that love as well.
When pregnant crack addicts are asked to draw a self-portrait, they never draw themselves pregnant. They turn away from ultrasound pictures with revulsion. Drug counselors now look back to the days of heroin families with something verging on nostalgia. Heroin mothers could still buy groceries, they still occasionally gave a kid a bath. Boarder babies are what you end up with when a man, a woman and crack get together.
S erena lifts her shirt and points at her bellybutton. Serena tires of contemplating her navel. She runs to the cleaning closet, pulls out a broom and starts swinging. Lamps and books fly. Serena needs to be in a class of one. Charlie Kelley Knight, superintendent of public schools there. About three years ago, Knight called a meeting with some of her kindergarten teachers.
She was worried by the fact that so many kids were showing up completely unprepared for first grade. The answer, she had decided, was to make kindergarten a more academic experience. Knight was prepared for some opposition from the teachers. She was not, however, prepared for mutiny. Photo credit: pixabay. When a newborn cries for heroin instead of milk.
But what about the long-term effects of being born addicted to drugs? So will life be harder for a drug-exposed child than your average Joe and Jane? Likely, yes.
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