Drug abuse and birth defects, health and medicine homework help
1-2 pages needed
answer and discuss the following:
Pregnancy is sometimes not an easy thing to handle by some women. It can cause pain and depression. Many of these women use or abuse some form of drugs or chemicals to ease the pain and depression. Drugs or chemicals such as thalidomide, alcohol, and cigarette smoke are often used.
Questions for discussion:
1. Why thalidomide and some other similar anti-depression drugs are harmful?
2. How does alcohol cause a birth defect?
3. What kind of problems that the fetus get from a mother that smoke cigarette?