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In the last few years, problems associated with drug use in pregnancy have become endemic. As cocaine has become the drug of choice for millions of Americans, including pregnant women, as AIDS has become more commonly recognized in women and infants, and as legal cases have begun to raise the question of fetal abuse, no professional group has come forward to serve as advocate for this special population of substance abusers. Meanwhile, however, physicians, nurses, social service agencies and public health officials have all been faced with increasing numbers of infants showing the detrimental effects of their mothers’ drug use.
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Chasnoff, I.J. (1988). Introduction the Interfaces of Perinatal Addiction. In: Chasnoff, I.J. (eds) Drugs, Alcohol, Pregnancy and Parenting. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2627-1_1
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