Fetal Opioid Exposure Research
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Through no fault of their own, more than 20,000 Australian babies are born every year to parents who use addictive drugs. These babies are some of the most vulnerable children in Australia, at risk of a vicious cycle of disadvantage that gives them little hope for a promising future. Society has much to learn about how we can help these children be the best that they can be. Our research aims to understand how drugs affect the brains and health of babies and children, and how we can utilise the enormous plasticity of young and emerging minds to break the cycle of harm. Our research has potential to influence clinical best practice, development of medications and policy designed to improve the lives of generations of children effected by parental drug use.
- $5,000 would help fund a world first 4-million-person study
- $10,000 would help conduct 20 MRIs on babies to understand the impact of drugs on infant brain development
- $20,000 would help researchers work with the World Health Organisation to understand the Global Burden of Prenatal Drug use.
- $40,000 will help the United Nations Office of Drug Control develop a strategy for worldwide care of children impacted by prenatal drugs
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