State policies that treat prenatal substance use as child abuse or neglect fail to achieve their intended goals - Atkins DN, Durrance CP.

The US is experiencing a complex substance abuse crisis. Not only has opioid overdose mortality increased sharply, by 400  percent from 1999 to 2017, but opioid use during pregnancy contributed to a 300 percent increase in neonatal abstinence syndrome (NA...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news