When I was a family caregiver, one of the neighbors of the child's natural father, told me she overheard the dad trade in his food stamps for the month in exchange for crack. Meanwhile, I heard via the natural mother, that the dad bragged about putting on an act for a DCF social worker by hiding crack and pot under the sofa. Social workers and police should try smelling the air in the homes they investigate. They really need to use their senses and not be focused on just one or another expectation. Asthma, SIDS, infant seizures, and otitis are all causally increased in homes where the air and surfaces have smoke. Infants do not have the enzymes to metabolize cocaine inhaled or consumed from their hands after touching surfaces with cocaine on them. Progressive social workers and drug court magistrates and judges leave kids with no protection and assume, falsely that pediatricians have the courage and training to, specifically, confront crack, fentanyl, or meth using parents. Some of the symptoms children have are similar to the symptoms from legal smoke exposure, unless the child has a seizure. Even after a cocaine induced seizure, the child might not be tested for drug exposure. The doctor might assume the child has a seizure disorder. Healthcare and limitations placed by health insurance regarding diagnostic testing, and best practices guidelines, can all limit a doctor's ability to identify substance exposure related child endangerment. I would like to point out that a famous recreational drug use promoting professor from Columbia University, fails to warn people about the inability of infants to metabolize cocaine via smoke. Children have been known to have seizures from fentanyl and other drugs, too. Progressives put children last and hedonistic adults first in their list of priorities. https://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/education/bcr/addiction-research/pediatricians-prevent-substance-use
Meanwhile, smoke is one of the most common environmental risk factors for chronic secondary bacterial infections when a child has a viral respiratory infection. Our country has a problem with overuse of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance. All types of smoke in the home make is much more of a long struggle for small children, with this narrow eustachian tubes, to recover from respiratory infection. They recover from the virus, but the secondary, smoke exacerbated, bacterial infections can persist for months. Parents are usually clueless, even when they actually care about their children because pediatricians do not always counsel the parents about it. It is considered best practices, though. Our culture just does not make the effort to take a hard look at the 'LIVED EXPERIENCE' of the children of fentanyl, meth, crack, pot, alcohol, opiate, and tobacco addicts.
Bob Woodson is a national hero. His work is so incredibly inspiring. Then your pledge at the end had me almost in tears. I will donate to him. You did a wonderful service, Glenn, by amplifying Woodson’s voice and magnificent deeds.
Agreed on all counts. And I hope Glenn's donation pledge planet will be bountifully adorned with satellites - individual donations from those of us who listened to this moving conversation.
(Also, I was mightily impressed by *your* recent appearance on Jonah Goldberg's podcast. Thank you for trying to keep medical science healthy!)
When I was a family caregiver, one of the neighbors of the child's natural father, told me she overheard the dad trade in his food stamps for the month in exchange for crack. Meanwhile, I heard via the natural mother, that the dad bragged about putting on an act for a DCF social worker by hiding crack and pot under the sofa. Social workers and police should try smelling the air in the homes they investigate. They really need to use their senses and not be focused on just one or another expectation. Asthma, SIDS, infant seizures, and otitis are all causally increased in homes where the air and surfaces have smoke. Infants do not have the enzymes to metabolize cocaine inhaled or consumed from their hands after touching surfaces with cocaine on them. Progressive social workers and drug court magistrates and judges leave kids with no protection and assume, falsely that pediatricians have the courage and training to, specifically, confront crack, fentanyl, or meth using parents. Some of the symptoms children have are similar to the symptoms from legal smoke exposure, unless the child has a seizure. Even after a cocaine induced seizure, the child might not be tested for drug exposure. The doctor might assume the child has a seizure disorder. Healthcare and limitations placed by health insurance regarding diagnostic testing, and best practices guidelines, can all limit a doctor's ability to identify substance exposure related child endangerment. I would like to point out that a famous recreational drug use promoting professor from Columbia University, fails to warn people about the inability of infants to metabolize cocaine via smoke. Children have been known to have seizures from fentanyl and other drugs, too. Progressives put children last and hedonistic adults first in their list of priorities. https://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/education/bcr/addiction-research/pediatricians-prevent-substance-use
Meanwhile, smoke is one of the most common environmental risk factors for chronic secondary bacterial infections when a child has a viral respiratory infection. Our country has a problem with overuse of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance. All types of smoke in the home make is much more of a long struggle for small children, with this narrow eustachian tubes, to recover from respiratory infection. They recover from the virus, but the secondary, smoke exacerbated, bacterial infections can persist for months. Parents are usually clueless, even when they actually care about their children because pediatricians do not always counsel the parents about it. It is considered best practices, though. Our culture just does not make the effort to take a hard look at the 'LIVED EXPERIENCE' of the children of fentanyl, meth, crack, pot, alcohol, opiate, and tobacco addicts.
Bob Woodson is a national hero. His work is so incredibly inspiring. Then your pledge at the end had me almost in tears. I will donate to him. You did a wonderful service, Glenn, by amplifying Woodson’s voice and magnificent deeds.
Agreed on all counts. And I hope Glenn's donation pledge planet will be bountifully adorned with satellites - individual donations from those of us who listened to this moving conversation.
(Also, I was mightily impressed by *your* recent appearance on Jonah Goldberg's podcast. Thank you for trying to keep medical science healthy!)
very kind of you, Seth! best, Sally