The Littlest Victims

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bryo is about 3 cm long, for a healthy baby, and is in human form. For the last 7 months it completes the maturation process, organ systems develop, and the fetus grows dramatically in size (1). The most important time of the future baby’s life occurs during the first couple months of growth.
The results vary from one to another depending on the women, her usage amount, diet, lifestyle, culture, and whether she received prenatal care. Dekker explains that it is extremely difficult to establish a control group of drug users and non-drugs users and. The women who are addicted to drugs may not take the same amounts, or take drugs with the same purity (Dekker 194). Merith Cosden writer for Journal of Drug Issues states that identification of specific drug effects is disadvantaged by the fact many use several drugs and also smoke to complicate the problem even more (Cosden 525). Dekker explains that the majority of studies have raised more question than answers, since it is difficult to establish casual relationships of drug intake and a...