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  2. Thalidomide scandal - Wikipedia

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    Feet of a baby born to a mother who had taken thalidomide while pregnant. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the use of thalidomide in 46 countries was prescribed to women who were pregnant or who subsequently became pregnant, and consequently resulted in the "biggest anthropogenic medical disaster ever," with more than 10,000 children born with a range of severe deformities, such as ...

  3. Prenatal cocaine exposure - Wikipedia

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    Drug use by mothers puts children at high risk for exposure to toxic or otherwise dangerous environments, and PCE does not present much risk beyond these risk factors. [2] PCE is clustered with other risk factors to the child, such as physical abuse and neglect, domestic violence, and prenatal exposure to other substances. [44]

  4. Arguments for and against drug prohibition - Wikipedia

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    The lack of government regulation and control over the lucrative illegal drug market has created a large population of unregulated drug dealers who lure many children into the illegal drug trade. The U.S. government's most recent 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) reported that nationwide over 800,000 adolescents ages 12–17 ...

  5. No, Parents Didn't Spend Child Tax Credit Money On Drugs ...

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    Researchers examined drug use trends among more than 40,000 parents and nonparents in survey data around the half-year period when the government sent most parents in the U.S. monthly payments for ...

  6. Drug education - Wikipedia

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    Drug education is the planned provision of information, guidelines, resources, and skills relevant to living in a world where psychoactive substances are widely available and commonly used for a variety of both medical and non-medical purposes, some of which may lead to harms such as overdose, injury, infectious disease (such as HIV or hepatitis C), or addiction.

  7. Fact check: Will drug dealers target kids with fentanyl-laced ...

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    Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid used to treat severe pain that is 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.. In 2020, more than 56,000 deaths ...

  8. Medical experimentation in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Eleven children died in the trial: five after taking Trovan and six after taking an older antibiotic used for comparison in the clinical trial. Others suffered blindness, deafness and brain damage, the cause of which is difficult to determine because these disabilities are relatively common outcomes of the disease itself.

  9. Why is RSV so dangerous for some young children but not ... - AOL

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    Nearly all children get RSV by age 2, but in most, it causes a bad cold. Why are some young children hospitalized for the infection?