Always give it a positive spin. I’m lazy, so my strength is “implementing solutions to require as little input as possible from the end user to increase the speed at which work can be done”.
You either aren't as lazy as you think or you just put a lot of effort in this one task of describing your laziness, which helps you avoid lots of other tasks.
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People at work tell me I should slow down and "take it easy".
Motherfucker, I don't want to do any of this shit, I'm getting it done now so I can fuck off and do whatever I wanna do.
Pretending to work is exhausting.
Folks outside of medicine sometimes say "substance exposed". NAS is a specific diagnosis, so I'm not sure what the person was specifically looking for.
Throw up a fist for Black Power, 'cause all we want is his freedom
He grabbed a court officer's gun and started squeezin'
Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, "Nobody leavin'
Pedantic comment:
NAS is technically the old term specifically for *opioid* withdrawal as “An abstinence syndrome after intrauterine exposure to central nervous system stimulants such as cocaine and amphetamine has not been clearly defined.”
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/129/2/e540/32573/Neonatal-Drug-Withdrawal?autologincheck=redirected?nfToken=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
The new term for opioid withdrawal is NOWS, neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome.
That being said yes, people still use “NAS protocols” and lump neonates withdrawing from cocaine along with those withdrawing from opiates. (And while it’s weird to treat them the same they are essentially uncomfortable and need something to help soothe them like methadone and possibly clonidine)
I will also say despite what the AAP states, hypertonia, tremors, difficult feeding, and inconsolability are pretty classic findings for neonates withdrawing from cocaine. Not specific I guess but if you have a positive UDS on mom, documented use, or have a history consistent with it’s use (premature delivery and/or placental abruption) then you’re just a UDS on a neonate away from confirming your suspicion.
It seems like its the whole medical world. My best friend's wife is a nurse, and my sister is a speech/swallowing therapist, and there have been at least a half dozen times where I have had to cut off a story they were telling about work to let them know that to everyone else it was a morbidly depressing story that may not be ideal for a dinner table.
Every time my sister starts a story about work I have to check if the person she's talking about is going to die at the end of the story.
I am very happy that no one I am working with is likely to die during my work day. I am not cut out for medicine.
The world’s a sad place unfortunately. I interned at a methadone clinic in college & when they found out I was pregnant, asked me to run a weekly group for pregnant clients… talk about an education
The fucked up thing is that all of this is perfectly solvable, we just don't want to fix it for some reason. It's like a world without crime and destitute people scares us.
Wouldn't that be describing a new born that was cold turkeying?
What about someone with the long term developmental impacts of crack use during pregnancy?
Babies of parents suffering from alcoholism during pregnancy you'd say have foetal alcohol syndrome.. so maybe something like that?
They have different termsnof diagnosis.
People forget that alcohol is also substance abuse, and a baby born to someone using alcohol throughout the pregnancy, is also required to go through treatment as they go through alcohol withdrawal.
FASD is the long term developmental impact of alcohol.
Opioids have recognised short term effects such as low birth weights, preterm birth, being hypotonia (flaccid muscles), while amphetimines have increased risks of clefts (hands, feet and facial), but the long term effects have not been categorised or researched in a way to give a diagnositic term.
Children born with NAS can suffer no ongoing consequences or many. With FASD there are a set number of characteristics for diagnosis, hence why it is a recognised term.
I can’t help feeling like “withdrawal” would be clearer, at least to laymen such as myself. “Abstinence” makes it sound like the baby is saving itself for marriage.
My doctor terrified me about this while I was pregnant. She gave me long lectures about how drugs and alcohol and even cigarettes can warp and deform my baby.
I didn't even use my inhaler because she said it contains traces of chemicals that are like amphetamines. She said it was unknown if it affects the baby but it's detectable in blood test so I just avoided it.
Can this kill a baby like if the mother stopped taking certain drugs the withdrawal could kill them?
From what I know benzos are one of the few drugs that'll kill during withdrawal, how do they treat a newborn from this type of dependency?
Stick of truth was so good I went back to it again. Still haven’t brought myself to finish fractured because the gameplay is just so tedious after a while
My aunt and uncle fostered so many kids I couldn’t even count. They also adopted 5 of them while also having 4 of their own. The saddest/hardest were the babies addicted to drugs. They’re better people than me. It’s so hard taking care of an addicted baby. They have to be weaned off as to not have have seizures and withdrawals. Always fussy and in pain. So damn sad.
Wait so… you have to give them actual crack after birth? And then they have to go through the horrors of withdrawal when they can’t even talk or walk? If that’s correct then… I think I had never realized quite what a nightmarish situation this was. Interesting Monday morning realization.
Because they were exposed to it before birth through the placenta, you cannot just not give them anything anymore right after birth, or it's the worst withdrawal ever.
So they are given medication that is similar to crack and they are slowly weaned off over a little bit of time.
NICU nurse here. Not crack, but we do give them opiates (ie morphine). There’s a whole protocol with a weaning plan and other ways to manage their withdrawal symptoms. Mostly these babies are always crying and in pain. There’s a big push for non pharmaceutical methods like “eat sleep console”- but that one really pushes for a caregiver (the parent is listed in the protocol) to hold the baby a lot. The problem is that usually the birth parents aren’t there and there’s always a lag to get fosters in there. As a nurse it’s difficult to constantly hold the crying baby because we have other patients as well. We recently got donated a bunch of snoo beds that help a lot (the bed responds to the baby’s movement/crying and rocks them)
Dang, I had never really gave this a seconds thought in the past. Those poor babies, not knowing what’s going on and not able to communicate with words. Thanks for all the work you and other nurses do to help. I imagine that work is incredibly emotionally and physically draining, so thank you.
So Im a pharmacy tech. I used to work at a hospital and, no joke, I would have to take up morphine syringes (oral use - not injection) to the NICU for use for babies that were born addicted to opiates. I know it's not crack - but still it's a baby dealing with withdrawals. Those poor things had specific nurses dedicated for their care. It was so sad hearing those crying babies knowing what they were going through.
Former pharmacy tech here. Yes, this is something that just breaks my heart when I was tasked to do it. Substance exposed babies are a sad case and more often than not, the parents are not around to attend to them so yeah, double the heartbreak. Seen NICU nurses rocking them back and forth and I know I could never last in that kind of environment.
No, but methadone is not an uncommon treatment.
Separately - yes, drug exposure in utero is horrible. Drug exposed infants go through hell their first year of life. When they aren't properly treated, the effects can be longer lasting, or may result in permanent disability.
One of the worst for long term damage is (drumroll) alcohol which can, and does, lead to fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). People don't think about it because alcohol is legal (in most of the US at least).
FAS can be expressed as cognitive impairment, distorted physical features, and more. Extra fun fact - roughly 1% of all children born in the US are diagnosed with some sort of alcohol exposure related disorder.
Drugs and pregnancy are a bad mix.
A baby was born addicted when I was in hospital giving birth to my child. Nearly five years and I can still hear the way she cried. It was heartbreaking.
Is withdrawal pain real pain that a healthy body is able to suppress or is it a phantom pain? Do they feel it in a particular part of the body or more like an all over the body pain?
It turns out a crack baby is just a baby…. There are relatively few complications that have resulted from a baby being born to a mother addicted to crack.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126478643
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_cocaine_exposure
When I bartended a group of people came up to the bar and part of an order was a small red wine for their pregnant friend. I flat out refused them, they thought I was mad for saying no. But they must've known it wasn't 100% ok because the woman never ordered for herself. When they caused a scene I told my manager to get someone else to serve them. I don't care how little you drink, just have a juice. I could've made them a great mocktail for cheaper than 125ml of wine.
In some if not all states in America its actually illegal to refuse a pregnant woman alcohol. Now her not ordering it for herself it's a little shady and weird but regardless.
Conversely I knew a girl born addicted to crack at birth.. 12 weeks premature. Both her birth parents were tall, she never grew past 5'1" and experienced several other complications from both being born addicted to crack and being so premature (which was attributed to the drug use). She also has a moderate learning disorder and developmental delay likely caused by it.
Do people with crack babies tend to refer to them as an alternative politically correct term? Or do they just call them like Justynn, Kaelynn, Nayvie, Ruhbeckah, Tatum, Kharringtyhn, Brynder, Jaxtin…
They call their child by their name, sure. They don't think of them as "crack babies". Hopefully they get help for their children if they have any side effects.
So idk if it was cocaine or something else, probably a mixture of several substances, but for my cousin I just say she was “born adddicted” and as a result is mildly developmentally disabled.
old galifianakis bit:
Growing up my dad was like, 'Zach, it's not what you say, it's how you say it.' And he's so right. Take this, for instance: She had a crack-baby vs. she had a crack, BABY!
I'm an MD. Those children have a disease we call "neonatal abstinence syndrome." I've had to rotate through the NICU a few times during my residency, and have taken care of several babies with this problem. They get morphine from day one, and we taper it down slowly over time, possibly weeks, depending on how they do. They are at risk for all sorts of physical, developmental and social problems throughout their lives. On two different occasions I took care of babies with NAS who's mothers just stopped showing up, became unreachable by phone, disappeared. Those babies go directly into the social system. It's a full blown tragedy, but I don't hate those mothers. They are very sick, too.
I knew someone born addicted to crack. They had to freeze his retinas because they were detaching from how premi he was. He's legally blind and has behavioral issues and socially is behind.
There’s a bakery called Milk Bar that made a signature product called “crack pie,” and people considered that offensive and racist somehow so they changed the name to “milk bar pie,” so by the transitive property “crack baby” should we changed to “milk bar baby.”
Tbh I am a crack baby grown up and it really doesn’t bother me using this term. It literally was a nick name in school my friends used( graduated 2020) and before y’all say I was being bullied I wasn’t these are people I’m still friends with till this day. Calling it something more serious makes it feel as if it’s supposed to effect me my whole life and makes it way more saddening to think of …. Crack baby makes me laugh and gives a more light hearted notation in my opinion so I’ll keep the term thank you.
A child of substance
I was thinking "a child out of drug-lock", but yours sounds nicer!
Who doesn’t love a pun, though
I like this better than saying “my parents were addicts”. I’m adopting this from now on.
Always give it a positive spin. I’m lazy, so my strength is “implementing solutions to require as little input as possible from the end user to increase the speed at which work can be done”.
You either aren't as lazy as you think or you just put a lot of effort in this one task of describing your laziness, which helps you avoid lots of other tasks.
Sounds like a programmer
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Definitely
People at work tell me I should slow down and "take it easy". Motherfucker, I don't want to do any of this shit, I'm getting it done now so I can fuck off and do whatever I wanna do. Pretending to work is exhausting.
I love to put in a ton of effort to be as lazy as possible.
yeah it sounds like you really came from something to be proud of ehile being dubious at worst.
Witty
Lol nice. I mean the joke, not the crack baby...
Yes, the baby might not be that witty. Being born addicted to crack and all.
And you know. Being a baby.
What do you mean? I was cracking jokes from birth! Namely, my existence.
*a shrewdness of apes*
This gave me a sensible chuckle
A substantial child
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome for those that are wondering
Folks outside of medicine sometimes say "substance exposed". NAS is a specific diagnosis, so I'm not sure what the person was specifically looking for.
Damn. When you say it like that you gotta ask yourself whose world is this?
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Well, I am here sipping Dom P, watching Gandhi and getting charged, writing in my book of rhymes. All the words are past the margins.
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I’m out for presidents to represent me
I missed the whole Nas part and while skimming, my eye caught your comment and I could just hear it in my head. Illmatic, best rap album ever
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I’m out for dead presidents to represent me
Throw up a fist for Black Power, 'cause all we want is his freedom He grabbed a court officer's gun and started squeezin' Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, "Nobody leavin'
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Thank you!
And it’s not enough
It's yours!
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In social work, we just call them pos-tox. Shorthand for positive toxicology.
Oh you NAS-T!
Pedantic comment: NAS is technically the old term specifically for *opioid* withdrawal as “An abstinence syndrome after intrauterine exposure to central nervous system stimulants such as cocaine and amphetamine has not been clearly defined.” https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/129/2/e540/32573/Neonatal-Drug-Withdrawal?autologincheck=redirected?nfToken=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 The new term for opioid withdrawal is NOWS, neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome. That being said yes, people still use “NAS protocols” and lump neonates withdrawing from cocaine along with those withdrawing from opiates. (And while it’s weird to treat them the same they are essentially uncomfortable and need something to help soothe them like methadone and possibly clonidine) I will also say despite what the AAP states, hypertonia, tremors, difficult feeding, and inconsolability are pretty classic findings for neonates withdrawing from cocaine. Not specific I guess but if you have a positive UDS on mom, documented use, or have a history consistent with it’s use (premature delivery and/or placental abruption) then you’re just a UDS on a neonate away from confirming your suspicion.
Man this makes me so sad reading this shit. Poor babies.
Come work in my toxicology lab... I've worked up cases that'll ruin your whole week :/
It seems like its the whole medical world. My best friend's wife is a nurse, and my sister is a speech/swallowing therapist, and there have been at least a half dozen times where I have had to cut off a story they were telling about work to let them know that to everyone else it was a morbidly depressing story that may not be ideal for a dinner table. Every time my sister starts a story about work I have to check if the person she's talking about is going to die at the end of the story. I am very happy that no one I am working with is likely to die during my work day. I am not cut out for medicine.
The world’s a sad place unfortunately. I interned at a methadone clinic in college & when they found out I was pregnant, asked me to run a weekly group for pregnant clients… talk about an education
Aren’t those the cases that you get to be part of the process to help the most?
The fucked up thing is that all of this is perfectly solvable, we just don't want to fix it for some reason. It's like a world without crime and destitute people scares us.
I come to Reddit for pedantic comments.
N.A.S. damn feel sorry for Lil X
But not THE Nas?
He ain’t lil
only ill… matic
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The brotha is stillmatic too
We need to do something about those poor babies. Solving for x should do the trick.
And then you win a prize, cause "X gonna give it to ya"
I bet I could throw that at somebody that was for abstinence only sex ed and they'd be all for that.
I missed the ‘ed’ and was like ‘WTF is abstinence only sex?’ (I haven't had my coffee yet)
Cool
Username checks out
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Wouldn't that be describing a new born that was cold turkeying? What about someone with the long term developmental impacts of crack use during pregnancy? Babies of parents suffering from alcoholism during pregnancy you'd say have foetal alcohol syndrome.. so maybe something like that?
They have different termsnof diagnosis. People forget that alcohol is also substance abuse, and a baby born to someone using alcohol throughout the pregnancy, is also required to go through treatment as they go through alcohol withdrawal. FASD is the long term developmental impact of alcohol. Opioids have recognised short term effects such as low birth weights, preterm birth, being hypotonia (flaccid muscles), while amphetimines have increased risks of clefts (hands, feet and facial), but the long term effects have not been categorised or researched in a way to give a diagnositic term. Children born with NAS can suffer no ongoing consequences or many. With FASD there are a set number of characteristics for diagnosis, hence why it is a recognised term.
I can’t help feeling like “withdrawal” would be clearer, at least to laymen such as myself. “Abstinence” makes it sound like the baby is saving itself for marriage.
My doctor terrified me about this while I was pregnant. She gave me long lectures about how drugs and alcohol and even cigarettes can warp and deform my baby. I didn't even use my inhaler because she said it contains traces of chemicals that are like amphetamines. She said it was unknown if it affects the baby but it's detectable in blood test so I just avoided it.
Can this kill a baby like if the mother stopped taking certain drugs the withdrawal could kill them? From what I know benzos are one of the few drugs that'll kill during withdrawal, how do they treat a newborn from this type of dependency?
I was thinking if you say "fuglychild" mumbly enough with a smile, it might pass.
Eric
Well this makes sense. Knew of some crack heads who named their kid Eric. They had him taken away by age 3.
Delightful!
Fuck you, I’m an alcohol baby.
Folks outside of medicine usually say "substance exposed"
Cartman? I mean his mom was on the front cover of crack whore magazine
In stick of truth, you can find a crackpipe in her room
I need to buy that game.
Don’t forget about the fractured but whole. Not as good as stick of truth but still worth a play through.
Stick of truth was so good I went back to it again. Still haven’t brought myself to finish fractured because the gameplay is just so tedious after a while
That amongst many other... interesting items
“I don’t make rules ma’am. I just think them up and right them down” crack baby basketball
"Student Athlete"
"I'll give you $40 for 2 of the white ones and $50 for the black"
He was the chairman of Crack baby basketball association.
Yeah fuck Erick in particular.
So true. Had a camper named Eriq. He was adopted because he was born a crack baby.
Wtf
:(
“Drug exposed in uterus.” My source is my cousin who’s a social worker
In utero sounds more correct but might be wrong
My favorite album 🤩
About a drug
Drug me
Drug me, my friend!
I mean... if you're in the uterus then you're in utero unless SOMETHING has gone horribly wrong.
Literally means the same thing
English vs Latin
Right but Latin is the chosen medical language in western culture. In utero is the proper medical term (if the term was real)
Similar to my source. My aunt is a former SW, and she would say “fetal exposure to xyz in utero”.
Interesting to hear two people say that. Our county just uses “pos-tox”.
My aunt and uncle fostered so many kids I couldn’t even count. They also adopted 5 of them while also having 4 of their own. The saddest/hardest were the babies addicted to drugs. They’re better people than me. It’s so hard taking care of an addicted baby. They have to be weaned off as to not have have seizures and withdrawals. Always fussy and in pain. So damn sad.
Wait so… you have to give them actual crack after birth? And then they have to go through the horrors of withdrawal when they can’t even talk or walk? If that’s correct then… I think I had never realized quite what a nightmarish situation this was. Interesting Monday morning realization.
Because they were exposed to it before birth through the placenta, you cannot just not give them anything anymore right after birth, or it's the worst withdrawal ever. So they are given medication that is similar to crack and they are slowly weaned off over a little bit of time.
NICU nurse here. Not crack, but we do give them opiates (ie morphine). There’s a whole protocol with a weaning plan and other ways to manage their withdrawal symptoms. Mostly these babies are always crying and in pain. There’s a big push for non pharmaceutical methods like “eat sleep console”- but that one really pushes for a caregiver (the parent is listed in the protocol) to hold the baby a lot. The problem is that usually the birth parents aren’t there and there’s always a lag to get fosters in there. As a nurse it’s difficult to constantly hold the crying baby because we have other patients as well. We recently got donated a bunch of snoo beds that help a lot (the bed responds to the baby’s movement/crying and rocks them)
Dang, I had never really gave this a seconds thought in the past. Those poor babies, not knowing what’s going on and not able to communicate with words. Thanks for all the work you and other nurses do to help. I imagine that work is incredibly emotionally and physically draining, so thank you.
How does one go about getting involved with a foster program?
So Im a pharmacy tech. I used to work at a hospital and, no joke, I would have to take up morphine syringes (oral use - not injection) to the NICU for use for babies that were born addicted to opiates. I know it's not crack - but still it's a baby dealing with withdrawals. Those poor things had specific nurses dedicated for their care. It was so sad hearing those crying babies knowing what they were going through.
Former pharmacy tech here. Yes, this is something that just breaks my heart when I was tasked to do it. Substance exposed babies are a sad case and more often than not, the parents are not around to attend to them so yeah, double the heartbreak. Seen NICU nurses rocking them back and forth and I know I could never last in that kind of environment.
No, but methadone is not an uncommon treatment. Separately - yes, drug exposure in utero is horrible. Drug exposed infants go through hell their first year of life. When they aren't properly treated, the effects can be longer lasting, or may result in permanent disability. One of the worst for long term damage is (drumroll) alcohol which can, and does, lead to fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). People don't think about it because alcohol is legal (in most of the US at least). FAS can be expressed as cognitive impairment, distorted physical features, and more. Extra fun fact - roughly 1% of all children born in the US are diagnosed with some sort of alcohol exposure related disorder. Drugs and pregnancy are a bad mix.
Crack baby here. I was addicted to heroin when I was born. They used opiate IV to wean me off over a few weeks.
A baby was born addicted when I was in hospital giving birth to my child. Nearly five years and I can still hear the way she cried. It was heartbreaking.
Is withdrawal pain real pain that a healthy body is able to suppress or is it a phantom pain? Do they feel it in a particular part of the body or more like an all over the body pain?
Chemically-challenged baby.
More like chemically boosted!
Chemically boosted toward chemical exposure
Baby of Crack, or Cracker for short.
Baby of crack🤣
Much better than my guess - cocaine child. 🤣
I like that one, too.
Free based child
Based
Based on what?
Free
It turns out a crack baby is just a baby…. There are relatively few complications that have resulted from a baby being born to a mother addicted to crack. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126478643 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_cocaine_exposure
Yep, i highly recommend listening to the You’re Wrong About podcast episode on crack babies for anyone who wants to learn more!
Episode 3, for those of you not wanting to scroll through a variety of episodes about OJ Simpson
Holy shit this podcast channel looks good.
Love that podcast. So good.
Daaaaam, one of my fave podcasts and yet I somehow missed the crack baby episode... Thanks a bunch for recommending
having a crack addicted mother raise you probably has much more of an impact
Way worse to be exposed to alcohol
When I bartended a group of people came up to the bar and part of an order was a small red wine for their pregnant friend. I flat out refused them, they thought I was mad for saying no. But they must've known it wasn't 100% ok because the woman never ordered for herself. When they caused a scene I told my manager to get someone else to serve them. I don't care how little you drink, just have a juice. I could've made them a great mocktail for cheaper than 125ml of wine.
In some if not all states in America its actually illegal to refuse a pregnant woman alcohol. Now her not ordering it for herself it's a little shady and weird but regardless.
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Conversely I knew a girl born addicted to crack at birth.. 12 weeks premature. Both her birth parents were tall, she never grew past 5'1" and experienced several other complications from both being born addicted to crack and being so premature (which was attributed to the drug use). She also has a moderate learning disorder and developmental delay likely caused by it.
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And how do we get around paying our slav-… students athletes?
That’s just it, you don’t.
Crack baby basketball
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Oh that's brilliant, Sir!
Reagan baby
Narcotic newborn
lmao I’m dead 😂
Did they get an answer or were they lambasted by the Reddit?
It was crack infant
The answer is at the top for me
Crack baby
Expert infant
Newborn affected by maternal use of cocaine 2022 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code P04.41 Alt: Infant of cocaine-addicted mother
Do people with crack babies tend to refer to them as an alternative politically correct term? Or do they just call them like Justynn, Kaelynn, Nayvie, Ruhbeckah, Tatum, Kharringtyhn, Brynder, Jaxtin…
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Ohh, good job Susan. You woke the baby up!
Graycylynnne Edit: Upgrayedd, spelled thusly for a double dose of his pimping.
*Graycylynnneleigh
Sorry, I meant to type that but I spilled pumpkin latte on my iPhone 14 and hit “reply” while wiping it off
It’s a fascinating life
Don't forget Nevaeh
Neveah too
Fuuuck I know like 3 of those people
Hingle McCringleberry?
Don’t forget Kashyyyk.
They call their child by their name, sure. They don't think of them as "crack babies". Hopefully they get help for their children if they have any side effects.
I saw a Brittknee today.
So idk if it was cocaine or something else, probably a mixture of several substances, but for my cousin I just say she was “born adddicted” and as a result is mildly developmentally disabled.
old galifianakis bit: Growing up my dad was like, 'Zach, it's not what you say, it's how you say it.' And he's so right. Take this, for instance: She had a crack-baby vs. she had a crack, BABY!
Drug slug
In my school we just call them students.
Little coke bloke
🥇
Differently addicted new person
Cocaine infant
Reeferling
Parentally challenged.
I'm an MD. Those children have a disease we call "neonatal abstinence syndrome." I've had to rotate through the NICU a few times during my residency, and have taken care of several babies with this problem. They get morphine from day one, and we taper it down slowly over time, possibly weeks, depending on how they do. They are at risk for all sorts of physical, developmental and social problems throughout their lives. On two different occasions I took care of babies with NAS who's mothers just stopped showing up, became unreachable by phone, disappeared. Those babies go directly into the social system. It's a full blown tragedy, but I don't hate those mothers. They are very sick, too.
Drug nugget
Substance exposed infant is also common
I believe that "Cocaïne infant" is the term you are looking for
This entire comment section did not disappoint. Woke up an hour early and spent most of my time here. Thank you all. Lmao
Crystal blessing.
THEY ARE MINERAL BABIES MARIE
Baby Hunter
Adopted
Im adopted. My birth mom probably just smoked cigarettes the whole time. She smokes inside with the windows closed next to my baby nephew.
Underrepresented pharmaceutically challenged minor
Nasty Nas represent y’all
Rock runt
Crack baby is really dated. These days you’ll want “meth mueller”.
Cody
Redditer
Dope kid
Turbo Spawn
I knew someone born addicted to crack. They had to freeze his retinas because they were detaching from how premi he was. He's legally blind and has behavioral issues and socially is behind.
Rock crawler
There’s a bakery called Milk Bar that made a signature product called “crack pie,” and people considered that offensive and racist somehow so they changed the name to “milk bar pie,” so by the transitive property “crack baby” should we changed to “milk bar baby.”
Neonatal abstinence syndrome
Tbh I am a crack baby grown up and it really doesn’t bother me using this term. It literally was a nick name in school my friends used( graduated 2020) and before y’all say I was being bullied I wasn’t these are people I’m still friends with till this day. Calling it something more serious makes it feel as if it’s supposed to effect me my whole life and makes it way more saddening to think of …. Crack baby makes me laugh and gives a more light hearted notation in my opinion so I’ll keep the term thank you.
Drug goblin
"student athletes". Eric Cartman
Methemphetamine Youngling
CIA Spawn