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Download full textLaken, Marilyn Poland; Hutchins, Ellen – 1995
According to current estimates, approximately 5.5 percent of all American pregnant women use an illicit drug during pregnancy. National concern for drug-exposed infants prompted interest in the needs of substance using pregnant women and in the development of drug treatment programs for them. A total of 147 comprehensive programs have been funded…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation, Focus Groups
Soby, Jeanette M. – 1994
This book presents the characteristics of children affected by prenatal drug exposure, fetal alcohol syndrome, fetal alcohol effects, and fetal cocaine/polydrug effects. It outlines incidence, service needs, prevention, and identification. The medical literature on the physical, cognitive, and behavioral characteristics of this population is…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Behavior Development, Cocaine, Cognitive Development
