Suppose you are a health care worker who is examining a child with the following symptoms: facial and bodily malformations,short attention span,hyperactivity,and motor impairments.Which drug would you suspect that the child's mother used during pregnancy?

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The symptoms described are consistent with fetal alcohol syndrome, which occurs when a pregnant woman drinks alcohol and it passes through the placenta to the developing fetus, damaging the brain and causing physical defects. Cocaine can also lead to similar effects, but the symptoms listed do not include common effects of cocaine on fetal development such as low birth weight and respiratory distress. Marijuana and heroin have not been shown to cause the same level of harm to a developing fetus.

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