Pregnancy & Drug Misuse

Catherine Siney (Author)

9781898507772, Elsevier Health Sciences

Paperback / softback, published 11 November 1999

176 pages
27 x 18 x 1.3 cm, 0.23 kg

This updated and expanded edition of The Pregnant Drug Addict (1995) explores the difficulties of managing the maternity care of those who are drug dependent. Catherine Siney has brought together a number of specialists whose combined expertise provides an essential guide to this problematic subject. Key issues include the medical and obstetric problems of mothers, the consequences for the child, pregnant women who are HIV positive or have hepatitis B, outreach work and counselling.

An overview
Management of pregnant women who are drug depedant
Women and drug use
Medical problems of illicit drug misuse in pregnancy and harm minimisation
Obstetric problems for drug users
Maternal drug use: consequences for the child
Hepatitis B, pregnancy and the drug user
HIV, pregnancy and the drug user
The sexual health needs of female drug users
Sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy and the drug user
Outreach work with female sex workers in Liverpool
Drugs counseling and the pregnant addict
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Gynaecology & obstetrics [MJT]