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Prenatal Drug Exposure and Development
Recognition that the use of opiates during pregnancy has potentially harmful effects to the foetus extends back to antiquity; Hippocrates noted that ‘uterine suffocation’occurred in conjunction with maternal opium use (Zagon & McLaughlin, 1984). More recently, arising from public concern about foetal alcohol syndrome in the 1970s and the ‘crack baby epidemic’of the 1980s, a […]
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