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crack baby syndrome  

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  • With the arrival of the relatively inexpensive and smokable crack form of cocaine, the rate of newborns exposed to cocaine in utero rose dramatically in the early 1990s. In the mid-1990s it was estimated that 1.1% of pregnant women used crack cocaine. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Development; Crack Baby Syndrome]

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