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Question by satankitty: How much can drugs harm a baby during the first month of pregnancy?
I found out I was pregnant 2 days ago. In the past few weeks I have taken 1 (possibly 2) ecxtasy pills, drank beer, smoked ciggarettes on a daily basis, and smoked one joint of marijuana. I’m thinking of keeping the baby, so I’m not going to do those things anymore. I’m just wondering if anyone can tell me the chances of the baby comming out deformed or retarted? Thank you.
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Answer by Miss Morgan
Think about it this way, That first month is when the blue prints for your baby are being drawn up in a way. Everything that your baby will be is already mapped out in the first month or so. Good Luck.
Answer by Bailey’s Mom 🙂
Just “say no to drugs” Here is why:
Fetal Abuse
A growing number of women are being criminally prosecuted or having their children taken from them for doing drugs while pregnant.
The trend is deeply alarming to women’s rights advocates and health-care workers, who warn that such a heavy-handed approach will only deter drug-addicted mothers-to-be from seeking out prenatal care. Moreover, many warn, such tactics may be paving the way for abortion — the ultimate violation of “fetal rights” — to legally be declared murder.
“These cases represent the intersection of the war on drugs and the war on abortion,” says Lynn Paltrow, director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women, who has successfully helped argue against dozens of similar prosecutions in the last decade. “There may have been a temporary lull, but the issue has not gone away.”
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, spurred by hyperventilating news stories warning of a coming deluge of “crack babies,” prosecutors in more than 30 states sought to stem the anticipated flood by charging scores of drug-using pregnant women with everything from child abuse to manslaughter. In nearly all cases, however, judges eventually threw out those prosecutions, in part because the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision had firmly established that a fetus is not a person in the eyes of the law.
But in the last year, a fresh crop of fetal-rights cases have sprung up. In April, a 26-year-old Texas woman was indicted for child endangerment after her newborn tested positive for cocaine. The same month, a Pennsylvania judge ruled that prosecutors could charge an addicted mother with child endangerment for using heroin while pregnant — even if her baby was born healthy. This spring, the Oklahoma state legislature nearly passed a bill making it a misdemeanor for pregnant drug abusers to fail to get substance-abuse treatment. And in Georgia, 21-year-old Shannon Moss is facing murder charges for allegedly killing her fetus by taking cocaine and amphetamines while pregnant.
Moreover, in recent years at least 17 states have enacted civil laws making it possible for authorities to take away the children of pregnant women who test positive for drugs. The Ohio Supreme Court may take up the issue soon. So far, hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of children have been taken from their mothers as the result of a single positive drug test, according to the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy.
The most bitter battleground, however, is South Carolina, the only state so far to have explicitly extended criminal child-abuse laws to cover fetuses. Despite directly contrary rulings in numerous other states, South Carolina’s Supreme Court declared in 1997 that drug-using pregnant women can be prosecuted criminally — and sentenced to as much as 10 years in prison.
Dozens of women have since been charged. Just last March, one woman was sentenced to three years in prison for violating her probation by “abusing” her unborn child with cocaine, and another drew a five-year suspended sentence for smoking marijuana while pregnant.
Such prosecutions were pioneered 11 years ago with the help of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, where zealous hospital officials started a program of testing pregnant women for drug use, and turning over their findings to police. The US Supreme Court will rule later this year on whether that practice violated the women’s Fourth Amendment right of protection against unreasonable searches.
Those who prosecute pregnant drug users say they have everyone’s best interests at heart. “I just want the babies to be safe,” says Tommy Pope, chief prosecutor for South Carolina’s York and Union Counties, where the two women convicted in March live. “We try to use prosecutions as a last resort. But you run into situations where a woman has had five kids, and they’ve all tested positive for crack. Where do you draw the line?”
“Unless addicts are forced to stop, they won’t,” seconds Bobby Hood, the attorney representing the city of Charleston in the Supreme Court case. The threat of prison, he maintains, “has a very good deterrent effect.”
But in fact, according to a broad range of women’s rights and major health care organizations, the threat of prison is more likely to hurt, not help, the unborn babies of drug users, by frightening drug-using mothers-to-be away from seeking prenatal care. The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and many other groups formally oppose criminal prosecutions of mothers of drug-exposed babies.
Even Daniel Kennedy , an Illinois lawyer who recently founded the incipient Fetal Rights Institute, doesn’t think criminal prosecutions are the way to go. “Fetuses are definitely children,” says Kennedy. “But jailing moms for hurting their kids prenatally doesn’t help. It will only encourage women to seek abortions, or avoid treatment.”
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Paterson man arrested for selling drugs at substance abuse treatment center
PATERSON — Police arrested a 55-year-old man outside a drug-treatment center and charged him with distributing prescription medication inside the facility, according to a report on NorthJersey.com. Luis Pou was busted at the Straight & Narrow complex, …
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Tampa Treatment Center Announces New Approach Toward Drug-Induced Deaths
A Tampa treatment center is starting an updated, new consultation program that is geared toward helping cut back on the number of drug-related deaths for people living in Tampa and surrounding cities through Drug Addiction Treatment Centers. According …
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Question by all you need is LOVE, LOVE, LOVE: How long can you live in a coma WITHOUT TREATMENT?
okay, so i was writing this story ( something i do often :D) and this girl was in a coma. i am wondering how long its possible to remain in that state, just so i can make it seem more plausible.
real thorough answers please, and maybe a couple websites with information? Thanks!
What about the vegative state of a coma? How long can you live in that state without treatment, if at all?
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Answer by Steve L
Coma is an extended period of unconsciousness from which a person cannot be aroused even with the most painful stimuli. Coma is not a disease. It is a symptom of a disease or a response to an event, such as a severe head injury, seizure or metabolic problem. Most comas do not last longer than four weeks. Some people in a coma shift to a persistent vegetative state, in which breathing, maintaining normal blood pressure, digesting and eliminating foods continues without the patient’s awareness. The vegetative state can last for years or decades. The outcome of a coma ranges from full recovery to death. Whether a person recovers, and to what extent, depends upon the cause of the coma and the type and extent of the brain damage.
A coma involves two different concepts: Reactivity and perceptivity.
The perceptivity concept refers to responses of the nervous system to learned stimuli. These types of stimuli may be learned through language or communication skills.
The reactivity concept refers to the inborn functions of the brain. These functions include the eyes, ears, responses to pain, wakefulness and turning ones head toward a sound of movement. These movements are also called reflexive movements.
A person in a coma does not experience reactivity or perceptivity. The patient can not be aroused by calling their name or experiencing pain.
Symptoms of a Coma
The main symptom of a coma is the inability to be aroused to consciousness. Other symptoms are: Lack of self-awareness, Lack of a sleep-wake cycle, Lack of purposeful movements, Lack of suffering and Impaired breathing.
What Causes a Coma?
A coma can be caused by a variety of things. The most often cause of coma is severe head injury. Other causes are: consumption of a very large amount of alcohol (toxic or metabolic coma), diabetes, morphine, shock or hemorrhage. Treatment varies depending on the cause. Overall, in coma cases, damage to the brain’s “thinking, and life support centers” have occurred. When damage has occurred, bleeding in the brain, swelling and congestion of the damaged tissue is present. In extreme cases, brain swelling is so great that portions of the brain must be forcible squeezed out of the skull. This dead or “dying” tissue is then surgically removed. An alternative to squeezing portions of the brain out of the skull is to saw off the skull and place it in a cold storage to better accommodate the swollen brain.
What happens during a coma?
There are different stages of a coma. Most people believe that a person in a coma is in a deep sleep. This is not entirely true. Some stages of coma resemble a deep sleep but not all. The progress of coma is measured by the patient’s increasing awareness of external stimuli. There are many levels of coma which the patient will pass through as functionality increases. Depending on the stage, a person in a coma may make movements, sounds and experience agitation. Coma patients may also have reflex activities that mimic conscious activities. Sometimes, coma patients must be restrained to prohibit them from removing tubes and IVs.
Emerging from a Coma
When a person begins to emerge from a coma, they begin to react to certain stimuli. However, to regain consciousness, both reactivity and perceptivity must be present. Reactivity and perceptivity are necessary for a state of awareness. It is often the case that some parts of perceptivity such as speech and self care must be relearned.
A beneficial Coma
Sometimes a coma may be chemically induced by a doctor to aid in medical treatment and recovery. This usually happens during a head injury.
Coma Statistics
Every ten minutes head injury claims the life of another child.
Head trauma is the number one cause of death and disability among people between the ages of 1 and 44.
About 5% to 10% of all coma patients are incapable of conscious behavior, and end up vegetative, which most of the public think of as prolonged coma.
Answer by formerly_bob
There is an infinite spectrum of coma severity.
At one end of the spectrum, the brain is damaged enough that a person’s breathing is affected and they would not get enough oxygen if they were not on life support. Without any treatment, these people would would die within a day or two after the initial injury as the breathing function slowly stops. If they were taken off life support, the heart would stop beating within 2-5 minutes.
At the other end of the spectrum, a person may be in a state that is very close to a deep sleep with otherwise normal brain function. These people could theoretically live indefinitely with life support. Without life support, they would die from dehydration after several days or maybe a little longer since they couldn’t drink water.
Wichita Treatment Center Offers New Video Explaining Services Available for …
Cocaine, heroin, Oxycontin and benzodiazepines are just a few of the drugs that the treatment center helps people put in their past. Alcoholism, a disease that destroys individuals as well as families, is addressed through the substance abuse treatment …
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Planned drug and alcohol recovery center vandalized
steps-recovery-center-st-george. ST. GEORGE, Utah — The founder of a rehabilitation center is offering a $ 500 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person(s) responsible for vandalizing a proposed group home in St. George. The eight …
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Question by vinay: i need to promote drug rehabs centers site, its a client site how can i get traffic to this site?
this site related to various drug rehabs centers in United States, there is no traffic to this site, please share your views to improve traffic for these types of sites, urgent!
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Answer by Fatcash
Have drug dealers stick a label with your website address on their baggies. 🙂
You will probably need to seek a online marketing professional, to help you with SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) and you could also do PPC, Pay Per Click advertising, which is the ads on the sides of the search engines, And, when someone typed in a related topic like, “Find a drug rehab center” it would display your ad.
You could try drug rehab forums, and groups online, and advertise there as well.
Which, your website is a very broad, website, and many people seeking treatment, find a place locally in their phonebook. But, than again, there may be people out of state, or want to send their child or someone to an out of state rehab center that provides better treatment. So, your site may have potential.
Smethwick rehab centre on the move to save money
Smethwick rehab centre on the move to save money. A rehabilitation centre which helps 300 people kick drug and alcohol problems every week is being moved to cut costs, under plans unveiled today. Tweet. The facility will now be housed at the Alberta …
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Local doctor tackles Ottawa's drug 'epidemic' with new treatment centre
An Ottawa doctor is taking on the city's cocaine and opioid “epidemic” by opening up his own addiction treatment clinic in Vanier. Dr. Mark Ujjainwalla, who has been an addiction specialist for 25 years, says nearly 8,000 addicts in Ottawa tried to get …
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Police: Teen sodomized at East Hampton drug rehab facility
Police said they were called to the Phoenix House Academy in Wainscott, a drug rehabilitation and treatment center for adolescent males, at 5:10 p.m. on Sunday. When officers arrived, they found an 18-year-old male victim had been sexually assaulted.
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Question by : what are some residential treatment centers for teens in texas who are battling depression?
i’m trying to look for a residential treatment center in texas for adolescents who are battling depression, anxiety, self mutilation, etc. please let me know of some names of the centers and where they’re located!
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Answer by Nathan
My advice is to just google “psychiatric hospitals in Texas”, a psychiatric hospital is your best bet when it comes to things like this.
Answer by Jen
I don’t know of one in Texas, but I do know of one is Santa Fe, New Mexico that a friend went to. It is called, “Life Healing Center.”
Good luck and I hope you find a place that helps you get the peace you deserve!
San Diego Adolescent Eating Disorder Treatment Center Holds Open House
The program provides treatment for male and female adolescents, ages 10 to 19, who are struggling with eating disorders including anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder. Center for Discovery San Diego is located in a residential home which …
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NJ freezes placements at treatment center tied to private special-needs school
A spokesman for the state Department of Children and Families, Ernest Landante, confirmed the state stopped sending children to the Somerset Hills Residential Treatment Center in Warren Township in March after receiving the complaints. The suspension …
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Chinese Labor Camps To Be Transformed Into Drug Rehab Centers
“The new rehab center will proved compulsory drug rehabilitation treatment for addicts, and help them find self-confidence again.” With newfound prosperity and some freedoms, drug addiction is rising in China. The Atlantic reported earlier this year …
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Anaheim Drug Rehab Announces Program to Help Drivers Kick Drug Habit …
Anaheim, CA (PRWEB) November 15, 2013. An Anaheim drug rehab center is launching a program aimed at stopping the rampant abuse of people driving under the influence of drugs, specifically marijuana, at Drug Addiction Treatment Centers.
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Addiction Treatment With a Dark Side
For Shawn Schneider, a carpenter and rock musician, the descent into addiction began one Wisconsin winter with a fall from a rooftop construction site onto the frozen ground below. As the potent pain pills prescribed for his injuries became his …
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Suncoast Rehabilitation Center Earns Perfect Score From State of Florida for …
Suncoast Rehab Center's Adult Residential Level II treatment program recently received a performance rating score of 100% for the fourth consecutive year by the Florida Department of Children and Families. Share with Twitter Share with LinkedIn.
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Ventura County, CA Addiction Treatment Center Expands Services
The affordable luxury drug rehab treatment center in Ventura County, California improves success rates and announces revised licensing and health insurance acceptance. Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share on LinkedIn Email a …
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