Objectives & Table of Contents

Objectives

  1. Discuss current laboratory methodologies to substantiate in utero substance exposure

  2. Discuss implications of prenatal substance abuse for the mother, family and fetus/newborn

  3. Discuss fetal and infant effects to  substances commonly abused by the pregnant woman

 

Table of Contents

Overview

Laboratory Testing

Maternal Implications

Family Implications

Specific Drugs & Fetal/Infant Effect

Alcohol

Cocaine

Marijuana/Tobacco

Heroin/Methadone

Caffeine

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

Conclusion

References

 

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