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By Loretta P. Finnegan,Stephen R. Kandall

This proposed publication attracts at the services of 35 specialists within the box of dependancy drugs to supply the reader with a present and complete view of habit as on the topic of ladies, being pregnant, newborns, babies and kids. the amount starts through putting present attitudes in the direction of addicted girls in a old context, and keeps with contributions at the courting of gender to substance abuse study, habit as a common wellbeing and fitness factor in ladies, and moral dilemmas confronted whilst impending drug use while pregnant.

The volume discusses high-risk pregnancies and HIV an infection on the topic of maternal drug abuse. It info particular pharmacotherapy similar to methadone and buprenorphine, and assesses society’s punitive view towards illicit drug utilizing ladies. ultimately, the booklet describes results of newborns, babies and kids born following intrauterine drug exposure.


Health services in lots of similar disciplines, experts in habit drugs, social staff and ethicists are between those that will achieve perception into the advanced interdisciplinary matrix of abuse in ladies, its particular courting to being pregnant, and its effect on drug-exposed children.


This e-book used to be released as a unique factor in the Journal of Addictive Diseases.

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