Word: chasnoff
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...concerned that by threatening to prosecute pregnant drug users, officials will end up driving away even those women who could be assisted. "This sends a clear message to the women most in need of prenatal health, that it is dangerous for them to get help," says Dr. Ira Chasnoff, president of the National Association for Perinatal Addiction Research and Education. "It's a punitive approach that is being taken out of frustration by the legal and medical communities...
Even dramatic new evidence of widespread cocaine use by pregnant women probably underestimates the extent of the problem. Addressing a meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences held in Bethesda, Md., last week, Dr. Ira Chasnoff of Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital reported that a study he directed of 36 U.S. hospitals found that at least 11% of 155,000 pregnant women surveyed had exposed their unborn babies to illegal drugs, with cocaine by far the most common. "There are women who wouldn't smoke and wouldn't drink," he says, "but they can't stay away from cocaine...
...newborns at Highland General Hospital, which serves Oakland's rough inner city, were contaminated with the drug. So far this year, about 20% of all babies born at Highland have been afflicted by crack. The problem, however, is not confined to low-income, minority patients. Says Chasnoff: "Our findings cut across all socioeconomic backgrounds...