Crack Babies Research Paper
Joshua J Lashley
March 20, 2005
Crack babies and there every day problems.
Dr Wigfall
Eng 120
When walking through my neighborhood you see a lot of things that could really hurt you. Things you wouldn’t ever dream of. A nightmare is what you could call it, which is what you would really see. Walk on the wrong street at the wrong time you could get beat up or jump for a couple of dollars or even your shoes, just so someone could get high, and if you walk through the wrong path you could be approached by a prostitute, a pimp, or even a drug dealer trying to get into your pockets or even get you to work for them.
On day I was walking up the road to play basketball and I saw something that I would never dream of. I saw a woman …show more content…
Thousands of thousands of dollars are spent to maintain help, and rehabilitate the babies. Today in the U.S., 11 percent of new born babies are born exposed top crack in the womb. But that does not say that they are addicted to the drug. Studies show that many babies are exposed to crack cocaine in the womb but only become addicted to the drug over a period. Meaning that the mother has to become high more then just once to get the baby addicted to the drug. If the baby gets high twice within a days time period the doctors say that they are addicted to the drug. But another study shows that as a mother takes a hit of crack cocaine, the drug stays in the mothers fluid (which is where the baby is kept) for a time span of two weeks to two in a half weeks. Causing the baby to be re-exposed to the drug over and over will in the womb. So saying that, it is really safe to say that some babies are addicted to crack cocaine from the first time there mother do the drug, since the drug says in the women fluids which are in the womb for two weeks and the baby stays in the womb, the baby is bound to be re-exposed to the drug twice in a …show more content…
A normal person that does crack stays high for about forty minutes to and hour and thirty minutes. While when a pregnant women only stays high for twenty minutes at a time. They only stay high for twenty minutes because the baby takes up more then half the effect of the drug. And once again the baby keeps getting high for up to two weeks. Now that the mother is not even getting more half the effects of the drug, she goes back to get more and more until she feels that is good or she has her fix. And now the more the woman gets high the more longer the drug stays in her system, which causes the baby to stay high. Fifty percent of crack babies stay high more the two thirds of the time they are in the
March 20, 2005
Crack babies and there every day problems.
Dr Wigfall
Eng 120
When walking through my neighborhood you see a lot of things that could really hurt you. Things you wouldn’t ever dream of. A nightmare is what you could call it, which is what you would really see. Walk on the wrong street at the wrong time you could get beat up or jump for a couple of dollars or even your shoes, just so someone could get high, and if you walk through the wrong path you could be approached by a prostitute, a pimp, or even a drug dealer trying to get into your pockets or even get you to work for them.
On day I was walking up the road to play basketball and I saw something that I would never dream of. I saw a woman …show more content…
Thousands of thousands of dollars are spent to maintain help, and rehabilitate the babies. Today in the U.S., 11 percent of new born babies are born exposed top crack in the womb. But that does not say that they are addicted to the drug. Studies show that many babies are exposed to crack cocaine in the womb but only become addicted to the drug over a period. Meaning that the mother has to become high more then just once to get the baby addicted to the drug. If the baby gets high twice within a days time period the doctors say that they are addicted to the drug. But another study shows that as a mother takes a hit of crack cocaine, the drug stays in the mothers fluid (which is where the baby is kept) for a time span of two weeks to two in a half weeks. Causing the baby to be re-exposed to the drug over and over will in the womb. So saying that, it is really safe to say that some babies are addicted to crack cocaine from the first time there mother do the drug, since the drug says in the women fluids which are in the womb for two weeks and the baby stays in the womb, the baby is bound to be re-exposed to the drug twice in a …show more content…
A normal person that does crack stays high for about forty minutes to and hour and thirty minutes. While when a pregnant women only stays high for twenty minutes at a time. They only stay high for twenty minutes because the baby takes up more then half the effect of the drug. And once again the baby keeps getting high for up to two weeks. Now that the mother is not even getting more half the effects of the drug, she goes back to get more and more until she feels that is good or she has her fix. And now the more the woman gets high the more longer the drug stays in her system, which causes the baby to stay high. Fifty percent of crack babies stay high more the two thirds of the time they are in the