Parents who are addicted to drugs like opioid are putting the lives of their child at risk. New study says addiction to it has the tendency to cloud a parent's reason that eventually, it would be hard for them to make cognitive decision in taking care of their child.
In an article published by The New York Times, scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine sampled 47 brains coming from both men and women. These people went for treatment for their opioid addiction. The research consists of scanning the brains of these people, as they were looking at baby pictures. The results were compared to the scanned brains of 25 people who are healthy.
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Scientists adjusted the photos of the babies to make them even more look cute and adorable. The facial features of a child is called baby schema, according to NCBI. The experiment suggests that people with healthy brains responded well to the adjusted baby schema pictures, as they noticed how extremely adorable those babies were.
Meanwhile, people who are opioid dependent, didn't have the same reaction that people with healthy brains did.Their brain was able to go back to normal after they were given the medication, naltrexone. What it does is stop the result of opioid to make them think and be able to handle parenting again.
Even though it is a good treatment to help parents who are addicted to opioid think like a healthy person again, the concern is the side effect of the said medication. There is a study that suggests naltrexone could jeopardize a person's social cognition. It is not a huge research project but it is helpful enough to point out what it could do to parents who are addicted to opioid.
Opioid addiction is a serious matter because the life of a child could be in danger if handled by a parent who is depended this drug. So, share this information to everyone in your network today.
