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Direct linkMcCarthy, Sherri; Waters, Thomas Franklin – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2003
During the early 1980s, use of crack cocaine by expectant mothers introduced U.S. schools and social agencies to a large cohort of children with attachment problems, attention and learning difficulties, hyperactivity and other abnormal behaviors. Research focused on the early characteristics and needs of so-called "crack kids," but little…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Cocaine, Hyperactivity, Adolescents
