Primal Health Databank: Study
| Entry No: | 0006 |
| Title: | Opiate addiction in adult offspring through possible imprinting after obstetric treatment |
| Author(s): | Jacobson B, Nyberg K, et al. |
| Reference: | BMJ 1990;301:1067-70 |
| Place of Study: | 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. |
| Keyword(s): | barbiturates, drug addiction, nitrous oxide, obstetric medication, opiates, pethidine |
| Discussion: | 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. |
| See Also: | 0005, 0007, 0008, 0009, 0032, 0295 |
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