barbituratesdrug addictionnitrous oxideobstetric medicationopiatespethidine
Opiate addiction in adult offspring through possible imprinting after obstetric treatment
Autor(en)
Jacobson B, Nyberg K
Veröffentlichungsdatum
1990
Ort der Sudie
Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract
Retrospective study of 200 opiate addicts born in Stockholm from 1945 to 1966 using siblings as controls. In subjects who had subsequently become addicts a significant proportion of mothers had received opiates, barbiturates or both and these mothers had received nitrous oxide for longer and more often.
Diskussion
Refer to entry number 0005. and 0007-0008. This study was given as an example to explain the concept of "cul-de-sac-epidemiology" (Odent M. Lancet 2000; 355: 1371.