Drug Misuse and Motherhood

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ISBN: 9780415271943 | 0415271940
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/14/2001

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This book combines accounts from drug using mothers and practitioners responsible for their care offering many insights into the nature of women's dependence on drugs and the impact this has on mothering. Also revealed are those aspects of current practice that need urgent attention in the task that lies ahead for both health and social services.

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List of figures
Authors and contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
The research base
The changing context: women, drugs and family life	p. 1
Women, family and drugs	p. 3
Women's use of drugs: gender specific factors	p. 15
Concepts of motherhood	p. 32
Approaching motherhood: the pregnancy	p. 45
Preparing for motherhood	p. 47
Antenatal care: expectations and experiences	p. 63
Drugs and pregnancy	p. 78
Informal support: partners and mums	p. 93
Practitioner views of pregnant drug users	p. 105
Motherhood	p. 125
Hospital confinement	p. 127
Drugs and parenting	p. 145
Relapse: missing the window of opportunity	p. 165
Mothering and drugs: four case studies	p. 177
Child protection: social workers' views	p. 195
Service delivery and development	p. 211
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome	p. 213
The role of drug services for pregnant drug users: the Liverpool approach	p. 224
The drug liaison midwife: developing a model of maternity services for drug-using women from conception to creation	p. 239
Providing care for pregnant women who use drugs: the Glasgow Women's Reproductive Health Service	p. 250
Implications for policy	p. 261
Overcoming the barriers	p. 263
Dilemmas of child welfare and drug dependence	p. 276
Drugs policy and practice development in the United Kingdom	p. 285
Notes	p. 298
Index	p. 299
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