Cocaine-Exposed Infants: Social, Legal, and Public Health Issues

by James A. Inciardi, Hilary L. Surratt, Christine A. Saum

Book Overview

Research in the mid-1980s on the effects of prenatal drug abuse characterized cocaine-exposed children as moody, inconsolable, less socially interactive and less able to bond than other children. It was concluded that these conditions were irreversible. However, methodological problems in these early studies, combined with the fact that cocaine-using mothers abuse other drugs as well, has left the research and public health communities uncertain as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803970870
• ISBN13: 9780803970878
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"