Cocaine-Exposed Infants: Social, Legal, and Public Health Issues - Rilegato

Inciardi, James A.; Surratt, Hilary L.; Saum, Christine A.

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ISBN 10: 0803970862 ISBN 13: 9780803970861

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns, 1997

Riassunto

Research in the mid-1980s on the effects of prenatal drug abuse characterized cocaine-exposed children as moody, inconsolable, less socially interactive and less able to bond than other children. It was concluded that these conditions were irreversible. However, methodological problems in these early studies, combined with the fact that cocaine-using mothers abuse other drugs as well, has left the research and public health communities uncertain as to the cause and effect relationship between cocaine use and pre//postnatal consequences.

Cocaine-Exposed Infants examines what is known about the problem and unravels some of the contradictions in the literature. The book also explores, in depth, the media frenzy over 'c

Su questo libro

Contenuti:

Cocaine, Crack, and Women
'Cocaine Babies'
The Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Cocaine
Prenatal Cocaine Use and the Prosecution of Pregnant Addicts

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Sage Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0803970862
• ISBN 13: 9780803970861
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 116