PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS OF NARCOTIC ABUSE

Maternal narcotic abuse and the newborn.

In 50 infants born to women who continued to take heroin during all or part of their pregnancy the drug withdrawal symptoms were mild and were noted in 21 infants (42%). Only nine infants required treatment. Sudden infant death syndrome occurred in two infants at 4 and 6 months.

Maternal narcotic abuse and neonatal thrombocytosis.

responsiveness as severe as that of the asthmatics. Moreover, with very few positive airway responders in a small study group it would be difficult to show a significant difference statistically, even if such a difference had existed. Additionally, without a reference population, they cannot say whether their findings were normal or abnormal. In our own study of a cohort of low birthweight chil...

Prevalence of narcotic analgesic abuse among students: individual or polydrug abuse?

C hildren are exposed to smoking scenes usually depicted positively in the media, like TV programs and films, 1 which may encourage adolescents to initiate a smoking habit. 2 We should also consider their earlier exposure; we recently recognized that well-known classic picture books, repeatedly read to children , depict smoking. Nevertheless, how often these scenes appear in children's books is...

Cutaneous complications of pentazocine abuse.

Pulmonary Complications

were most common. We designed this study to update the pulmonary complications associated with illicit drug use in the 1990s. Design: Concurrent and retrospective chart review. Setting: Inner-city municipal hospital. Patients: All illicit drug users with pulmonary compli¬ cations seen by the pulmonary consult service were enrolled in the study. There were 105 hospital admis¬ sions of 97 patient...