Perinatal medication as a potential risk factor for adult drug abuse in a North American cohort

Authors
Nyberg, K Buka, SL Lipsitt, LP
Citation
K. Nyberg et al., Perinatal medication as a potential risk factor for adult drug abuse in a North American cohort, EPIDEMIOLOG, 11(6), 2000, pp. 715-716
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Envirnomentale Medicine & Public Health","Medical Research General Topics
Journal title
EPIDEMIOLOGY
ISSN journal
10443983 → ACNP
Volume
11
Issue
6
Year of publication
2000
Pages
715 - 716
Database
ISI
SICI code
1044-3983(200011)11:6<715:PMAAPR>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
The aim of this study was to explore perinatal exposures to medications as risk factors for adult drug abuse. We compared 69 drug abusing subjects and their 33 non abusing siblings with regard to history of labor pain analges ia during birth and other obstetric variables. Three or more doses of opiat es or barbiturates at birth yielded an OR of 4.7 (95% CI = 1.0-44.1) for be coming a drug abuser after multiple perinatal drug exposure.