Children exposed to drug abuse experience not only physiological but emotional and mental problems as well. After birth, children who have been exposed to drugs demonstrate health and behavior problems that are not generally associated with non-drug exposed children. Drug abuse does not only affect children exposed prenatally or to the secondary effects of addiction by parental neglect and abuse. Drug abuse effects on children do not stop at just the physiological, however. Drug abuse, indeed, has a very negative effect upon child development. 6 pgs. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
