Substance Abuse in Pregnancy: Mom and Child, Mother and Child

With the emergence of the life sciences in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, some explanations of hereditary malformations with a basis in clinical fact were developed. It was not, nevertheless, till the thalidomide disaster in 1961 that the requirement for additional study of the impacts of ecological aspects on genetic malformations was recognized. By the early 1970 s focused efforts had actually begun to be directed toward evaluating the effects on the unborn kid of mood-altering drugs taken throughout pregnancy. Over the past years, research study and treatment programs have actually caused the acknowledgment of a complete range of psychedelic drugs that impact the developing fetus either somatically or behaviorally. Programs for the treatment of the pregnant addict have actually been established which concentrate not just on the pharmacologic treatment of the woman but likewise on the social and psychologic attributes that position her and her unborn kid at threat. This book is an attempt to unite clinicians and scientists who have actually been active in developing programs for the recognition and management of the chemically reliant pregnant female and her newborn. The contributions of the several disciplines which the authors represent highlight the requirement for a multifactorial approach to the problems of substance abuse and abuse during pregnancy. It is hoped that through this kind of approach a much better future for substance-exposed infants, innocent spectators in the process of addiction, can be guaranteed. Ira J. Chasnoff vii Contributing Authors I. J. CHASNOFF, MD W.

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