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Search results for "cocaine babies" ...
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Cashing Out
Some local citizens have been using their food stamps to purchase large quantities of powdered baby formula at the super market, then selling it to local convenience stores for cash to get money to further their drug use. In addition, some convenience store owners were acting as middlemen for drug dealers, who use the powdered baby formula to stretch their supplies of cocaine and crystal meth. There is no provision in federal law governing such "second-hand" use of food stamps, and federal and state agencies interviewed for the story said they had never heard of anything like the story the reporters exposed.
Tags: Food stamps; drugs; cocaine; crystal meth; drug dealers; powdered baby formula
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War Without Victory
This series describes the facets of the war on drugs in Washington state, particularly areas that seemed too "small town" to have any drug problems. It involves a vivid description of the drug war in Snohomish County, the effects of drugs on newborn babies who carry on their mothers' addiction, how some drug offenders never spend a single day in jail, and also a study of how the legal system handles drug cases.
Tags: drug war; Washington; cocaine babies; drug-fighting agencies; Snohomish County
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The Youngest Victims of Cocaine
The Chicago Sun-Times found that Chicago-area hospitals have reported a 24 - fold increase in the last decade in the number of babies born with cocaine in their blood--raising the number of cocaine babies to more than 3,000. These babies have a higher risk of dying of SIDS and have to compete with the drug for their mother's affection.
Tags: babies Infant drug exposure coke babies mortality rates
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No title (id: 10115)
Washington (D.C.) City Paper explores the syndrome of "crack babies," finding that no such syndrome exists; the media-coined term takes a serious problem and causes mothers and care-takers of such babies to give up hope, Dec. 13, 1991.
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No title (id: 7682)
Progressive Magazine investigates the dilemma facing law enforcement over how to prevent pregnant women from using drugs; 375,000 babies were exposed to crack cocaine in the womb in 1989, December 1990.
Tags: Grabar Elshtain
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No title (id: 7389)
San Francisco Examiner explores the impact of the U.S. cocaine epidemic by profiling those who contributed to the predicament of a single ``crack baby;'' includes profiles of drug dealers and the child's mother, Feb. 4 - 8, 1990.
Tags: CA Williams
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No title (id: 7327)
Houston Chronicle studies social service agency budgets and finds the cost of crack cocaine in the city is reaching into the millions; the number of children held in foster care increased 37 percent last year in part because of crack; ambulance calls surged 49 percent in four years, and the number of drug-addicted babies placed in intensive care units jumped 700 percent in the same four years, April 1, 1990.
Tags: Hunt emergency medicine
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No title (id: 6711)
Baton Rouge State Times explores the drug problem in that area, from cocaine babies to yuppies buying drugs in bars; seven parts, Oct. 30 - Dec. 31, 1989.
Tags: Shinkle Garland Hoffman crime law enforcement courts Wheeler prostitution addiction abuse treatment
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No title (id: 1318)
Kansas City Times runs five-month series dealing with drug use; looks at babies of cocaine addicts, treatment of young addicts, kids selling crack, crack houses, ads for legal drugs, crank (rural crack) labs, prosecution of drug dealers, and public officials using or selling drugs, Jan. 21 - May 26, 1989.
Tags: None