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Maternal Substance Abuse

Cascade

  • Perinatal program aimed at women who are pregnant or have young children
  • ONLY women
  • Voluntary program
  • Only therapeutic interventions

Education

Effects on the Baby

  • Bringing education to women in their early reproductive years
  • Providing excess education to those of normal reproductive age
  • Education prevention
  • Community education outreach

Maternal Substance Abuse

Immediate

  • diarrhea
  • abnormal sucking reflex
  • fever
  • hyperactive reflexes
  • poor feeding
  • rapid breathing
  • Uncontrolled and worsens with time
  • Lack of education and awareness
  • Gateway drugs are no longer what they are taught to be
  • Expectant mothers are changing their drug of choice

Prenatal Screening

Fast Facts

  • Universal substance abuse screening
  • Continuous care and screening
  • previous issue means consistent long term screening
  • Community outreach to women shelters and providing care there
  • Women make up about 40% of individuals with a lifetime drug disorder
  • Highest risk for developing disorder during reproductive years
  • 5.4% of pregnant women between 15-44 are current illicit drug users

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)

a group of problems that occur in a newborn who was exposed to addictive opiate drugs while in the mothers womb

  • 24-48 hours postpartum up to 5-10 days
  • treatable!

Works Cited/Recommended Sources

Addiction Resource. (2014). Drug abuse and pregnancy: two lives at risk! [URL]. Retrieved from https://addictionresource.com/guides/drug-abuse-and-pregnancy/#:~:text=Substance%20abuse%20in%20pregnancy%20is%20associated%20with%20a,and%2044%20are%20current%20users%20of%20illicit%20drugs

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2020). Substance abuse during pregnancy [URL]. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/substance-abuse/substance-abuse-during-pregnancy.htm

Forray, A. (2016). Substance use during pregnancy [PDF]. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4870985/pdf/f1000research-5-8232.pdf

National Institute on Drug Abuse. (2021) Substance use while pregnant and breastfeeding [URL]. Retrieved from https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/substance-use-in-women/substance-use-while-pregnant-breastfeeding

North Carolina Department of Justice. (2020). Opioid Crisis [URL]. Retrieved from ncdoj.gov/responding-to-crime/opioid-epidemic/

Effects on the Baby

Long term

  • birth defects
  • low birth weight
  • premature birth
  • small head circumference
  • sudden infant death syndrome
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