Drug use did not differ between the exposed and non-exposed participants as young adults, according to Hurt’s research. About 42 percent used marijuana and three tested positive for cocaine one time each. Hurt’s team has kept tabs on 110 of the 224 children originally in the study. Of the 110, two are dead — one shot in a bar and another in a drive-by shooting — three are in prison, six graduated from college, and six more are on track to graduate. There have been 60 children born to the 110 participants. Hurt said, “Poverty is a more powerful influence on the outcome of inner-city children than gestational exposure to cocaine.”
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