Women, Children, and Addiction

ISBN-13: 9781138878051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015

Loretta Finnegan;Stephen Kandall;¬Abar

Opis

This book provides comprehensive and up-to-date information, ranging from a historical perspective to current theories and practices related to affected women and their children.

This book was published as a special issue in the Journal of Addictive Diseases.

Spis treści

1. Introduction to Women, Children and Addiction  Loretta P. Finnegan  2. Women and Drug Addiction: A Historical Perspective  Stephen R. Kandall  3. Women and Addiction: The Importance of Gender Issues in Substance Abuse Research  Ellen Tuchman  4. Substance Use and Women’s Health  Abigail Kay, Trusandra E. Taylor, Andrea G. Barthwell, Jana Wichelecki, and Vera Leopold  5. Ethical Issues and Addiction  Binta Lambert, Melissa Scheiner, and Deborah Campbell  6. Addiction in Pregnancy  Joan Keegan, Mehdi Parva, Mark Finnegan, Andrew Gerson, and Michael Belden  . Human Immunodeficiency Virus Risk Behavior Among Female Substance Abusers  Susan E. Ramsey, Kathryn M. Bell, and Patricia A. Engler  8. Pharmacotherapy in the Treatment of Addiction: Methadone  Mary Jeanne Kreek, Lisa Borg, Elizabeth Ducat, and Brenda Ray  9. Gender Issues in the Pharmacotherapy of Opioid-Addicted Women: Buprenorphine  Annemarie Unger, Erika Jung, Bernadette Winklbaur, and Gabriele Fischer  10. Punishing Pregnant Drug-Using Women: Defying Law, Medicine, and Common Sense  Jeanne Flavin and Lynn M. Paltrow  11. Prenatal Drug Exposure: Infant and Toddler Outcomes  Emmalee S. Bandstra, Connie E. Morrow, Elana Mansoor, and Veronica H. Accornero  12. Children of Addicted Women  Barry M. Lester and Linda L. Lagasse

O autorze

Loretta P. Finnegan is President of Finnegan Consulting which addresses education, research, and treatment in issues relating to women’s health and perinatal addiction. She is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert in these fields and credited with the development of an assessment tool for neonatal opioid abstinence which is used widely in neonatal intensive care units in this country and abroad. Dr. Finnegan developed a landmark program which provided comprehensive services for drug dependent women and their children. She has lectured throughout the United States and in many international settings to disseminate her clinical and research knowledge in women’s health and perinatal addiction.

Stephen R. Kandall is the former Chief of Neonatology at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York and Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He has published over 70 articles and book chapters on perinatal addiction, authored a history of women and addiction in the United States, Substance and Shadow (Harvard University Press, 1996), lectured widely nationally and internationally, and served on a number of national panels related to perinatal addiction. He currently serves on the Board of the North Carolina March of Dimes and a number of state legislative committees in North Carolina.