...over 10,000 babies born globally with a disability caused by the drug Thalidomide. Born without arms, she was given a life expectancy of no more than 19 years; now at age 54, Mandy is starting to feel the painful effects of her life-long compensation for her disability (Cawley, 2013). Thalidomide was originally produced by the German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal, as an anticonvulsant. Early tests showed that the drug was inadequate for this purpose but had sedative properties. The drug was later used as a sleeping pill and prescribed to pregnant women to treat morning sickness. When the damage...
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...Born Addicted to Drugs Born Addicted to Drugs As prescription drug abuse increases, doctors face many challenges dealing with pregnant women giving birth to newborns addicted to opiates . While many people start out with narcotic pain killers prescribed by a doctor, they become habit-forming and can lead to a road of addiction and destruction in one’s lives. “These infants experience what's called neonatal abstinence syndrome as they undergo withdrawal from the addictive drugs their mothers took during pregnancy. Most often these are narcotic painkillers, such as oxycodone, morphine or hydrocodone, according to the report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” (Reinberg, 2015, p.1) Doctors could be somewhat unsure on exactly what to do, from sedating the newly born babies with withdrawal medications to any type of prescription medications, it brings a high risk to the life of the new born. Diagnosing the mother and infant with treatments provided by doctors will insure their survival and help them to live a healthy life. The problems that occur in a newborn who was exposed to addictive illegal or prescription drugs while in the mother’s womb, known as neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) include two major types of NAS: NAS due to prenatal or maternal use of substances that result in withdrawal symptoms in the newborn and postnatal NAS secondary to discontinuation of medications such as fentanyl or morphine used for pain therapy in the newborn. (Hamdan...
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...virus (HCV) U.S. Statistics • stimated 3,500 new infections E in 2013 • stimated 19,800 new infections in 2013 E • stimated 1.2 million people with chronic HBV E infection • stimated 29,700 new infections in 2013 E • stimated 3.2 million people with chronic E HCV infection Routes of Transmission Ingestion of fecal matter, even in microscopic amounts, from: • lose person-to-person contact C with an infected person • exual contact with an infected S person • Ingestion of contaminated food or drinks Contact with infectious blood, semen, and other body fluids primarily through: • irth to an infected mother B • exual contact with an infected person S • haring of contaminated needles, syringes, or other S injection drug equipment • eedlesticks or other sharp instrument injuries N Contact with blood of an infected person primarily through: • Sharing of contaminated needles, syringes, or other injection drug equipment Less commonly through: • exual contact with an infected person S • irth to an infected mother B • eedlestick or other sharp instrument injuries N Persons at Risk • ravelers to regions with T intermediate or high rates of Hepatitis A • ex contacts of infected S persons • ousehold members or H caregivers of infected persons • en who have sex with men M • sers of certain illegal drugs U (injection and non-injection) • ersons with clotting-factor P disorders • nfants born to infected mothers I • ex partners of infected...
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...Pregnant Women Should Be Prosecuted For Doing Drugs Birth Defects that occur because of street drugs being used during pregnancy is increasing every year. The most common drugs used by pregnant women are cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, which are easy bought and sold around the world. Some cases infants have even passed away or had birth defects such as growth defects, bad lungs, feeding problems, and may have an addiction problem. Tennessee is the only state to have a law prosecuting women who do drugs while pregnant, but noone has really tried to resolve this problem or for the numbers to decrease. Women are abusing infants before they are even born, abuse is a crime , and women should be charged ( Drug use and Pregnancy). During pregnancy at least 1 in every 20 pregnant women does street drugs during their pregnancy. Cocaine can increase the risk of miscarriage or cause placental abruptions, preterm birth and fetal death can occur , or the baby could be born with a smaller head and have growth restrictions. Injecting heroin can cause the baby to have an addiction to heroin, low blood sugar, internal bleeding, and death. Smoking marijuana could make the levels of carbon monoxide ride and increase the chance of low birth weight ( American...
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...Running head: DRUG ADDICTION AND PREGNANCY1 Drug Addiction and Pregnancy University of South Florida September 15, 2012 Drug Addiction and Pregnancy After reading about various topics regarding drug addiction, it wasn’t easy to narrow down this topic. Drug addiction and pregnancy was the topic found to be most interesting. Estimates based on court documents, news accounts, and data collected by attorneys representing pregnant women indicate that at least 200 women in more than thirty states have been arrested and criminally charged for their alleged drug use or other actions during pregnancy (Moore, 2010). Should pregnant women struggling with drug addiction be criminally prosecuted? This is a controversial subject that arguments from both sides presented valid points. There were articles found to support women with their addictions as well as others that were for prosecuting these individuals. Proponents of incarcerating pregnant women that use drugs believe that they are promoting fetal health and protecting children (Bradley, 2011). Some believe that if a pregnant woman knows she will be prosecuted for delivering a drug addicted baby, they may seek help to avoid having her child taken away from her (Szazbo, 2012). The problem with this idea is that if the women would like to have treatment, the facilities to accommodate them do not exist. This is a problem that has been identified as needing to be corrected, but the resources are not available...
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...Tuberculosis in the Asian Culture Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection called Mycobacterium Tuberculosis is one of the most fatal diseases affecting approximately 9 million people around the world with approximately 1.5 million deaths related to TB. In 2011 10,521 new tuberculosis cases had been reported in the United States that is approximately 6% lower than in 2010 (Basic TB Facts, 2012). Tuberculosis is more prevalent in immigrant Asians born out-side of the United States by 29.9%. Asians have the highest ratio of TB infected persons at a rate of 22.4 people per 100,000 the highest rate for any ethnic group (Medscape News Today, 2012). Generally, foreign born immigrants with TB did not have his or her TB diagnosed after having been in the United States for approximately two years, implying that he or she had dormant TB before coming to the United States. Asian immigrants are a culturally diverse group. The Asian culture and lifestyle have an impact to his or her health this could be because Asians eat a vegetarian-based diet and lack of vitamin B12 and iron, and possible language barriers make it difficult for patients to communicate properly with his or her physician. Asians that eat a mixed diet were less likely to contact TB (P.J. Finch, 1991). In China it is inappropriate to discuss personal illness with others, consequently a person infected with TB would be less likely to tell someone he or she are infected and not letting the other person have the option of...
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...woman becomes pregnant, it is very important for her to lead a healthy life to eat plenty of nourishing food, get plenty of rest, and exercise regularly. It is also vital that she avoid anything that might harm her or her baby-to-be. For a pregnant woman, drug abuse is doubly dangerous. According to (daily news, 2010) one hundred babies are born with drug withdrawal symptoms every month. Some drugs can directly impair prenatal development, most of the body organs and systems of the baby-to-be are formed within the first ten weeks or so of pregnancy during this stage. After about the tenth week, the fetus should grow rapidly in weight and size. At this stage, certain drugs may damage organs that are still developing, such as the eyes, as well as the nervous system. Continuing drug use also increases the risk of miscarriage and premature delivery. But the greatest danger drugs pose at this stage is their potential to interfere with normal growth “low-birth weight babies require special care and run a much higher risk of severe health problems or even death”. (Murphy, 1998) The cases of women who are charged and convicted of child abuse even before they are born reflect an interesting intersection between the conservative War on Drugs and the conservative effort to restrict reproductive freedoms. In the case of Whitner vs. South Carolina; the court found that the state’s statute includes a fetus within its definition of “child” and ruled that the “state was not violating Whitner’s Constitutional...
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...* CHRONOLOGY * * Second Trimester * * Mother attended her community drug and alcohol team (CDAT) were she was on a methadone programme. Referral was made by her key worker stated concerns that she may be pregnant and concealing it * * Pre - birth conference was held to establish the issues surrounding the mother, her pregnancy and her parenting skills. Mother did not attend. The pre – birth conference attended by the CDAT key worker, safeguarding midwife, health visitor, GP, social worker. The pre – birth conference took place as mum was concealing her pregnancy and that she was heavily * * DAY 1 Jack was born by caesarean section because they were concerns with the Zoe. Zoe was unwell – she had a heart valve problem. Jack was admitted to the intensive care unit, needing ventilation support for six hours 12pm * Safeguarding midwife aware that Jack been born, states that all people who needed to be aware of baby being born are. Informed us that her current partner and father of baby are not allowed to visit. Security, front desk at the main entrance of unit and nurses made aware * Urine virology/toxicology sent * Morphine started as Jack was Ventilated due to the respiratory distress 15pm * Out of hours social worker called inquiring about baby and mum 1630pm * Maternity support worker visited unit, updated on baby’s condition. Mum had her surgery – she will go and update mum 1830pm * Nurse looking after mum on...
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...With Brave New World, Aldous Huxley has written a novel about dangerous tendencies in the society he lives in. In his novel those tendencies became the truth and the society is controlled by the world state, people are produced through biochemical processes and freedom, individualism and relationships are considered as bad. The dangerous tendencies Huxley saw in his society are still existing in our society, but not as threatening as in Brave New World. One of the things Huxley warns about in his novel is a government that completely controlles its citizen. In Brave New World, people are controlled by sorting them into a class system that is build out of five classes. They are not born naturally and the state only produces peolpe who fit into...
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...Robert Downey Jr. Robert John Downey, Jr. born April 4, 1965, Downey was born in Manhattan, New York, the younger of two children. His father, Robert Downey, Sr., is an actor, writer, producer, cinematographer, and director of underground films, and his mother, Elsie, is also an actress and appeared in Downey Sr.'s films. His father is of half Russian Jewish and half Irish ancestry, and his mother is of German and Scottish descent. As a child, Downey was "surrounded by drugs". His father, a drug addict, allowed Downey to use marijuana at age six, an incident which his father has said that he now regrets. Downey stated that drug use became an emotional bond between him and his father: "When my dad and I would do drugs together, it was like him trying to express his love for me in the only way he knew how." Eventually, Downey began spending every night abusing alcohol and "making a thousand phone calls in pursuit of drugs.” During his childhood Downey had minor roles in his father's projects. He made his acting debut at the age of five playing a sick puppy in the absurdist comedy Pound in the 1970 and then at age seven he appeared in the surrealist Greaser's Palace (1972). When Downey was 10 years old, he was living in England and studied classical ballet as part of a larger curriculum. He grew up in Greenwich Village and attended the Stage door Manor Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York as a teenager. When his parents divorced in 1978, Downey moved to California...
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...Treatment of Premature Infants Psychology 210 November 12, 2013 Premature babies are babies born before 37 weeks. For some babies they are born closer to their due dates and suffer from little to no consequences of being born preterm. Preterm infants is another word for premature that is defined as any infant born before their due date. Where as the term small-for-date refers to babies that are born at the desired due date, but are below the expected weight for the length of time spent in the womb. About 500,00 babies are born prematurely in the United States alone. Many premature babies are forced to spend extended times in hospitals and suffer from health problems that can affect later life. Premature infants need more intensive and immediate care than full term infants to help recovery and survival. Certain activities or health problems put a women at greater risk for having a preterm infant. Some women have no signs that they are going to deliver preterm. Some of the risks of having a preterm infant include multiple births and in vitro fertilization. Mothers carrying more than one baby have a greater risk of having a their babies born premature or small-to-date. Also women that do not get proper prenatal care put themselves at greater risk to have a preterm infant. Unfortunantley, some women cant afford the prenatal care necessary for the developing fetus or are not educated about behavior needed...
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...Billie Holiday was born on April 7th, 1915. She claims that she was born in Baltimore, but a biographer named Donald Clarke noted that her birth records stated she was born at the Philadelphia General Hospital. She was the daughter of Clarence Holiday and Sadie Fagan. Her father abandoned her family when she was very young and refused to acknowledge the existence of Billie until after her first musical success. In her teenage years, Billie was known for dancing and singing along to some of the most popular record of the time, including Janice Joplin and Diana Ross. Later, her mother left her with some relatives and moved to New York. Billie claimed that while with her relatives, they abused her. In 1928, after little schooling and being mistreated, she left for New York to join her mother. This is where her musical career began....
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...In the world of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, everyone is happy, society is stable and peaceful, and the world seems like a utopia. Every person enjoys life and faces no problems or deals with hardships. In reality, the civilization is stable, but only because everyone chooses not to deal with their problems and escapes multiple displeasures through different means. Happiness is prioritized over everything else and everyone chooses to remain happy instead of facing truth or other conflicts. The civilization in Brave New World thus, is more dystopian than utopian. The major detrimental effects of this society are its use of escapism as an everyday application, and how that it deteriorates the psychology of each person. The detrimental effects of this society apply to the real world....
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...even more defined in cases of substance abuse by pregnant women, including legal addictive substances such as nicotine and alcohol. This issue has been pushed to the forefront of the public consciousness over the course of the past 30 years. Murphy and Rosenbaum 1999, describe maternal prenatal substance abuse as “chronic use of alcohol and/or other drugs by pregnant women”. It is my belief that the use of tobacco, alcohol, and illegal drugs during pregnancy is still child endangerment .All these tetatogen’s can kill your baby or cause serious problems for them with the development of cognitive, physical, social, and emotional abilities. It is unfair to the child to have no control over what has caused them problems with development as a result of their mother’s teratogen use; therefore there should be consequences as a result of their harmful decisions. It is understood that a women has the right to do with her body what she wants and that some that are pregnant: drink, smoke, or use illegal drugs with no signs of birth defects apparent in the born fetus. In addition, I do have compassion for those addicted to drugs that may require...
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...The world state in brave new world is and will always be a dystopia not a utopia, the world state is very screwed up to us but is it very okay with the people who live there. The life-style they are used to Is taking drugs, having sex, and just going about their days working or watching sports to fill the void, of having so much time. Life was okay for these people they can live but at what cost are they living for, no family, no mom, or dad. All people were born in a test tube raised to follow orders and get trained at a early age to do jobs that people of a higher rank don’t have to do. My first reason is drugs, drugs are a key to messing your life up, they unshape you from your morals, goals. Take away the value as a human, they make you feel happy while the real world slips from your hands while your mind is sending you on a trip, you can lose your values. You lose touch of who you are. No families, the thought of not having a mother or father, or never having that love or support is terrifying. Even the word mother or father is like the most forbidden word In that world, the first thought that comes to mind when they hear mother, family, or father they think of bad evil that’s like the worst thing anyone can say. It’s a forbidden, no. In this world the world family means your blood line, that’s who has your back, and who is there to love you and support you. In brave new world, the world family isn't a word or used at all. Making this world a terrible and unstable place...
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