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Grim Paradox. Until recently, heroin was considered the major villain. As more and more young female addicts have been enrolled in methadone maintenance programs, however, doctors have discovered a grim paradox: methadone is preferable for the adolescent or adult for a number of reasons-in eluding the fact that it does not normally produce the euphoria of heroin-but for the infant it seems to be even more dangerous than heroin...
Methadone, which easily crosses the placental barrier, may impede the fetus's normal development. More than 50% of all children born of methadone mothers are either premature or small for their gestational age. The same is true of the heroin baby, but most mothers on heroin receive minimal prenatal care and often have poor eating habits. By contrast, the methadone mother in a registered maintenance program is usually referred to a doctor for prenatal care. Although physicians cannot yet prove it, some suspect that the underdevelopment and prematurity of the methadone baby is a direct result of the drug...
...York City's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Lawrence Gartner, director of the division of neo-natality, has found that methadone babies are generally less healthy than heroin babies, and are born with a greater incidence of respiratory distress and jaundice. "Their symptoms of withdrawal last longer and worsen progressively," he says. Gartner has recently discovered a rare and particularly ominous methadone problem. Five babies born at the college's affiliate, Abraham Jacobi Hospital, showed no withdrawal signs until between two and three weeks after birth, by which time the infant is usually away from constant medical...
...drug-free community. Mothers work in group nurseries and learn about parenthood through weekly discussions. "I used to take a lot out on my daughter Jennifer," says Dianne Carleton, 21, of Fairfield, Conn. "I started taking 'speed' because I wanted to lose weight, and then went to heroin." Although Dianne, currently the only white adult at Mabon House, is now off drugs and better able to cope with herself and her child, there are many who are not so lucky. "Somehow the pregnant addict is harder to treat than the non-pregnant," explains Dr. Antonio Domantay, an Odyssey...
...unconstitutional. He acted in the case of John K. Meulener, who tried to board an American Airlines flight and activated a magnetometer. Since Meulener also fitted the secret federal "skyjacker profile," which purports to list the characteristics of potential skyjackers, he was thoroughly searched. Authorities found 76 grams of heroin and more than half a kilo of marijuana in his suitcase, plus a vial of hashish oil in his pants pocket. He was promptly arrested. Judge Ferguson ruled, however, that the search had been unconstitutional for two reasons. It had not begun with a simple pat-down for weapons, which...