So, again, why is alcohol legal. It was illegal during prohibition. Why not make it illegal again? And cigarettes.
Crack Babies: Twenty Years Later : NPR
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And to a great extent, this was sort of based on the really huge problem of fetal alcohol syndrome which does a lot of damage to unborn children's brains.
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And unfortunately I had several women who were seriously depressed and I had to leave them on antidepressant medication that works similar to cocaine and they were pregnant and they had their children and I watched these children grow up to be 10 years old and I did not see any evidence of this horrible brain damage that was being proposed.
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Dr. BELL: Alcohol is an extremely destructive drug. See, the problem is that cigarettes, nicotine and alcohol are legal and all the other illegal drugs are not, but the medical biologic reality is that alcohol and nicotine actually do more harm to a developing brain than all the other legal drugs combined. And so it's an oxymoronic kind of situation we find ourselves in.
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Blue highlight my emphasis. I believe the article in last quoted paragraph meant "illegal drugs combined."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art...7/#!po=2.77778
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Prenatal exposure to drugs: effects on brain development and implications for policy and education
Barbara L. Thompson, Pat Levitt, and Gregg D. Stanwood
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Many legal drugs such as nicotine and alcohol can produce more severe deficits on brain development than some illicit drugs such as cocaine.
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