SOCIO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Gonorrhea, Emotional And Behavioral Disorders, Asian Americans
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Minority means you"re underrepresented in positions of power. 500,000 babies born each year exposed to drugs in utero. Even higher rates if tobacco and alcohol are included. Pregnant women are more likely to experience: Most drugs are capable of crossing the placenta. Results in higher rates of infant mortality. New research has failed to find significant impact of drugs on motor, mental, or behavioral impairment after controlling for environmental factors. Women who abuse alcohol more readily develop liver dysfunction than men. (50- Women are more likely to contract hiv through iv drug use than men. Dependent on male means more likely to share a dirty needle. More likely to have unprotected sex with an infected male. Crack whores female addicts who exchange sex for drugs. Female crack users have substantially higher rates of stds than male crack users. It can be difficult to determine is some domestic issues are antecedent of or consequences of drug use.
